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	Podcast:		WIRED Business – Spoken Edition
	Episode:		Why Chinese Companies Plug a US Test for Facial Recognition
	Category:		Business
	Duration:		00:07:36
	Publish Date:		2019-03-06 15:31:34
	Description:		Last year, Chinese police arrested a man at a pop concert after he was flagged as a criminal suspect by a facial recognition system installed at the venue. The software that called the cops was developed by Shanghai startup Yitu Tech. It was marketed with a stamp of approval from the US government. Yitu is a top performer on a testing program run by the National Institute of Standards and Technology that’s vital to the fast-growing facial recognition industry.
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