Radio Taiwan International
Date: 06 November, 2019
By: John Van Trieste

Taiwan's railways administration has pulled the plug on a plan to equip train stations with facial recognition software.

The Taiwan Railways Administration has canceled a plan to equip train stations with facial recognition software.

The plan was proposed as a way of preventing a repeat of violent incidents like a 2014 stabbing spree in the Taipei Metro and a 2016 bombing at Taipei’s Songshan Station.    [FULL  STORY]