Iranian authorities plan to use facial recognition to enforce new hijab law

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https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/sep/05/iran-government-facial-recognition-technology-hijab-law-crackdown

Iranian authorities plan to use facial recognition to enforce new hijab law

Government says it will use technology on public transport in crackdown on women’s dress

Weronika Strzyżyńska
Mon 5 Sep 2022 01.00 EDT

The Iranian government is planning to use facial recognition technology on public transport to identify women who are not complying with a strict new law on wearing the hijab, as the regime continues its increasingly punitive crackdown on women’s dress.

The secretary of Iran’s Headquarters for Promoting Virtue and Preventing Vice, Mohammad Saleh Hashemi Golpayegani, announced in a recent interview that the government was planning to use surveillance technology against women in public places following a new decree signed by the country’s hardline president, Ebrahim Raisi, on restricting women’s clothing.

The decree was signed on 15 August, a month after the 12 July national “Hijab and Chastity Day”, which sparked countrywide protests by women who posted videos of themselves on social media with their heads uncovered on streets and on buses and trains. In recent weeks, the Iranian authorities have responded with a spate of arrests, detentions and forced confessions on television.

“The Iranian government has long played with the idea of using facial recognition to identify people who violate the law,” said Azadeh Akbari, a researcher at the University of Twente, in the Netherlands. “The regime combines violent ‘old-fashioned’ forms of totalitarian control dressed up in new technologies.”

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[DFW]

1. Who do these fanatics think they are, anyway?

Sam Alito?

[Dr. Shepper]

2. Theocracies suck

I feel so awful for the women of Iran and Afghanistan who must suffer under religious rule.

One would think the US would reject that type of governance, yet here we are with a third of the nation wanting a christofascist state. I guess they think forcing everyone to follow ancient dictates of a bunch of men would be different here.

[progree]

3. Catholic health care's wide reach can make it hard to get birth control in many places (in the U.S.)

NPR, September 4, 2022
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2022/09/04/npr-birth-control-catholic-health-care

Oops, the thread is about Iranian theocracy and surveillance of women. Nothing like that here.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. Watch for Texas or Florida to imitate this -- in pursuit of abortion providers or "voter fraud".