The systems facial recognition public destroy our privacy and serve to control us, but they are useless if They can be mocked with a simple cardboard mask.
They have caught several Chinese public employees cheating facial recognition at work with a paper mask. They believed they had outwitted the system, without realizing that the system was recording them with another camera…
In China, civil servants are considered privileged, because they “only” work eight hours a day, five days a week. Most Chinese employees They are trapped in the 996 system culture: From 9 in the morning to 9 at night (twelve hours a day), 6 days a week. They are, basically, slaves. It is the schedule that Elon Musk and other tycoons want to impose on their companies.
This is how they circumvent facial recognition in China
According to the local media South China Morning Postseveral employees of a neighborhood committee in Wenzhou city, east China’s Zhejiang province, They were caught wearing masks with photos of their classmatesto circumvent facial recognition systems for attendance control.
These employees had printed their colleagues’ selfies on a simple cardboard, which allowed them to «sign in» for several colleagues who had not come to work, or were late. Chinese officials must clock in both at the beginning and at the end of the day.
What they didn’t know is that another surveillance camera had recorded them cheating. In China, you lift a stone and a security camera comes out:
Opinions on Chinese social networks are not unanimous. Criticism has come from those who live under the slavery of the 996 day, who would give anything for the 40 hours a week of civil servants.
It must be explained that the employees of the neighborhood committee are at the bottom of the public employment chain. They are not civil servants, but freelancers hired by the government, and they do the hardest work: going around the neighborhood to the homes of citizens, and attending to their requests or needs.
Others put green facial recognition technology, which is fooled by a cardboard mask. Technicians assure that it is due to the low resolution of the cameras used.
There are those who defend these workers who, as I have mentioned, visit the neighbors’ houses, and sometimes entertain them, and do not arrive in time to clock the end of the day, which could imply that they have skipped work. It’s not like an office clerk, who just has to get up and clock in.
It’s a scene as old as the world: no matter how modern the control technology is, It is in the nature of human beings to try to outwit it.. Even if it is facial recognition.