China Fights Toilet Paper Theft With Facial-Recognition Technology (NBC)
by Eric Baculinao
BEIJING — A busy public restroom in China has begun deploying high-tech facial recognition technology to wipe out the problem of toilet paper theft.
At Temple of Heaven, a popular tourist attraction in Beijing, users must stand for three seconds in front of a camera-equipped dispenser in order to receive a two-foot section of bathroom tissue.
The $1,000 machine will not dispense any more to the same user for the next nine minutes.
The unusual restriction aims to "cope with the behavior of taking public toilet paper home which is theft and abuse of public resource," a park manager told NBC News.
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more: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/china/china-fights-toilet-paper-theft-facial-recognition-technology-n736236
Hmmm ... more toilet paper ... too expensive. $1000 computer-controlled dispenser, obvious target of vandalism ... just the thing.
Gotta keep those priorities straight.
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