A aron Brown was working as a CIA case officer in 2018 when he wrote a post for an agency blog warning about what he called ...

In this Oct. 31, 2018, photo, Huang Yongzhen, CEO of Watrix, demonstrates the use of his firm's gait recognition software at his company's offices in Beijing.

Chinese authorities have begun deploying a new surveillance tool: 'gait recognition' tech that uses people's body shapes and how they walk to identify them, even when their faces are hidden.

What gait recognition does is provide something that we are not very good at. We may recognize a loved one by the way that person walks, but our powers end there. The line in Shakespeare’s The Tempest ...

China's latest weapon in its war against citizen privacy: gait recognition software. According to a new story by the Associated Press, police in Beijing and Shanghai are using a gait recognition ...

Gait recognition systems are produced by Chinese company Watrix, whose CEO Huang Yongzhen told AP his cameras could identify people from 165 feet away, whether their face was visible or not.

Gait recognition technology is a biometric method - that is, a unique biological or behavioral identification characteristic, such as a fingerprint or a face.

Chinese authorities have begun deploying a new surveillance tool: “gait recognition” software that uses people’s body shapes and how they walk to identify them, even when their faces are ...

Chinese authorities have begun deploying a new surveillance tool: "gait recognition" software that uses people's body shapes and how they walk to identify them, even when their faces are hidden ...

Watrix announced last month that it had raised 100 million yuan ($14.5 million) to accelerate the development and sale of its gait recognition technology, according to Chinese media reports.