The carnival in Rio de Janeiro is on the outside celebrated. The authorities want to use this to find the offenders. For the first time, a face recognition software.
The carnival celebrations, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people in the streets of Rio de Janeiro – for example, in the case of the large parades in the “Sambodrom” or in the case of the hundreds of street parties and parades that take place all over the city.
But “Big Brother” to the people celebrating on the shoulder. For the first Time, cameras with facial recognition used to control the masses of people. In the Rio district of Copacabana, the images of the existing traffic cameras to be used.
In Salvador da Bahia, in the North-East of the country, cameras are set up, are already equipped with the Software for facial recognition. “Safety comes first,” argues Colonel Anselm Brandao, the chief of police of the Federal state of Bahia. “The special feature of this carnival, the new technologies are. We have cameras with facial recognition. But drones are used. And to all additions sleuths.”
traffic cameras and drones watch the people in the Brazilian carnival.
Britain and China, make it
The new System should be up to ash Wednesday in operation. The face detection is to serve as the official justification, for the purpose of identifying offenders who are wanted.
In Rio will be using the facewatch System, which is also in the UK already in use. In the System, the faces of the 1100 offenders have been deposited, the Computer will sound the Alarm if a mixes of them in Copacabana among the celebrants.
In Salvador da Bahia Software is used, also the use of authorities in China. There are also lesser Offences, known to be such as waste to Throw away or disregard followed red traffic lights.