{"id":8101,"date":"2019-09-16T12:33:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T12:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/8101-china-has-installed-facial-recognition-scanners-in-uighur-mosques\/"},"modified":"2019-09-16T12:33:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T12:33:16","slug":"china-has-installed-facial-recognition-scanners-in-uighur-mosques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/8101-china-has-installed-facial-recognition-scanners-in-uighur-mosques\/","title":{"rendered":"China has installed facial recognition scanners in Uighur mosques"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">A video filmed in China in July shows facial recognition scanners at the entrances to several mosques in \u00dcr\u00fcmqi, the capital of the northwestern region of Xinjiang, home to more than 10 million people from the<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>A video filmed in China in July shows facial recognition scanners at the entrances to several mosques in \u00dcr\u00fcmqi, the capital of the northwestern region of Xinjiang, home to more than 10 million people from the Uighur Muslim minority. Experts who have been following the Chinese crackdown on the Uighur community say that these scanners are the latest in a push to put this region under total surveillance.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who wants to go to the Noghay mosque in \u00dcr\u00fcmqi has to first agree to have their face scanned by a machine with facial recognition software. A video posted on Twitter on August 23 shows men lining up inside a small building that serves as a checkpoint.<\/p>\n<p>One after another, they stand in front of a screen and a face scanner that verifies their identity, all under the watchful gaze of a man in uniform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video filmed in China in July shows facial recognition scanners at the entrances to several mosques in \u00dcr\u00fcmqi, the capital of the northwestern region of Xinjiang, home to more than 10 million people from the A video filmed in China in July shows facial recognition scanners at the entrances to several mosques in \u00dcr\u00fcmqi, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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