The head of an Iranian government agency that enforces morality laws has said that facial recognition technology would now be used to identify any ‘failure to observe hijab laws’.
Just before the incident, Iranian lawmakers had suggested that facial recognition should be used to enforce the country’s strict hijab laws., the head of an Iranian government agency that enforces morality law said that the technology would be used to identify any ‘failure to observe hijab laws’.
The death of 22-year-old Jina Mahsa Amini in police custody, after being arrested by the Iranian ‘morality police’ for not wearing a hijab, sparked massive protests last year Shajarizadeh and others fear that the Iranian forces are getting tipped off by Iran’s use of facial recognition technology. Women in Iran are also reportedly receiving citations in the mail for hijab law violations despite not having had an interaction with a law enforcement officer.
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