Iran is reportedly using facial recognition technology to help enforce strict dress code rules for women after months of protests against the country's morality police.
Schoolgirls wave Iranian flags during a ceremony marking the 33th anniversary of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's return from exile at Khomeini's mausoleum in Tehran.
While there could be other explanations for how the women we caught in violation of the law, Alimardani pointed out that the regime has spent years building a biometric database of all citizens, which includes face scans. "Iran is a case where they have both the governmental will and the physical capability," Cathryn Grothe, a research analyst at Freedom House, told Wired., which has long used similar technologies to track its citizens and stamp out dissent. The Iranian regime may be benefiting from the Chinese experience to build its own program, purchasing much of its surveillance technology from Chinese camera and artificial intelligence company Tiandy.
Last month, the U.S. Department of Commerce sanctioned Tiandy for its role in the oppression of China's Uyghur Muslims and using technology developed in the U.S. to sell to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps. Intel, at one time, was one of the U.S. companies selling technology to Tianady but said last month that it had ended its relationship with the company.
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