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.

Gait recognition itself isn't a new technology, as scientists in Japan, the UK and the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency have all been researching it.

Capturing a human’s gait on camera started in the 1970s for medical purposes. More recently, by analyzing how a person moves, police use gait recognition technology to, for example, identify a person ...

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 ...