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Thursday, October 15, 2020

UNITED KINGDOM - Big Brother is watching your social-distancing! Over 1,000 AI scanners are monitoring how close pedestrians are walking to each other in major UK cities

Title:
Big Brother is watching your social-distancing! Over 1,000 AI scanners are monitoring how close pedestrians are walking to each other in major UK cities
 
Author:
Rory Tingle
 
Published:
Daily Mail, 9 October 2020
 
From the article:
More than 1,000 AI scanners are monitoring how close pedestrians get to each other in London, Manchester and other British cities to supply the government with data on social distancing.   
 
The sensors were initially intended to track the flow of traffic, cyclists and walkers to work out how roads were being used, but after lockdown in March were fitted with the new feature.