Seeking to intensify its rules, Iran’s Islamist regime you are using a artificial intelligence (AI) to identify and detain women who do not wear the hijabthe headscarf that they wear in the presence of people other than their immediate family.
According to a report published on the website of Be Techthis AI can identify ladies without hijabs in public spaces, a technology that has been used before for facial and gesture recognition.
The report adds that this artificial intelligence, developed by the Chinese company Tiandy, help law enforcement to arrest women who do not wear the headscarf in public or do not wear it properlya measure that has been pointed out as exaggerated and as repression.
This measure comes after several months in which there have been protests in the streets of Tehran and other locations over the suspicious death of a girl who was arrested for wearing the veil incorrectly.
A system very similar to that of China
Iran is not the only extremist country that uses this type of security systems. For example, In China, the police have a camera platform with which they measure the degree of crime in people, with a monitoring system which was also crafted by Tiandy.
Clearly, the way the Chinese use this tool has an important security sense, as it can help them catch bad guys. However, the way in which Iranians use artificial intelligence is much more severe and exaggerated, which can be considered unnecessary, although it is key to that culture.
In Western countries, this type of technology has been used in mass events such as concerts, effectively to guarantee the safety of those attending an event, but never as a tool for total control.
