China Tracks Faces to Shape Social Behavior

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Josh Chin and Liza Lin, China Tracks Faces to Shape Social Behavior; New technology taps camera data in vast social-engineering experiment. Wall Street Journal, June 27, 2017 (front page).
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the ... in-china-1498493020
http://www.technologynewschina.c ... lance-state-is.html

Note:
(a) The cn.wsj.com does not translate this report into Chinese, but have a video clip instead.

(b) "Gan Liping pumped her bike across a busy street, racing to beat a crossing light before it turned red. She didn't make it. Immediately, her face popped up on two video screens above the street. 'Jaywalkers will be captured using facial-recognition technology,' the screens said. * * *  Ms Gan, 31 years old, had been caught on camera crossing illegally here once before, allowing the system to match her two images. Text displayed on the crosswalk screens identified her as a repeat offender."
(i) pump (vt):
"2:  to exert oneself to pump or as if to pump something
3:  to move in a manner that resembles the action of a pump handle"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pump
(ii) The WSJ print report carries a photo whose caption reads: "An electronic sign in Shenzhen shows faces of people caught jaywalking by surveillance cameras."
(A) The photo displays something of a billboard with eight snapshots of one individual each. The top of billboard is 深圳交警, whereas the bottom, 人脸识别智能抓拍行人闯红灯.
(B) jaywalking
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaywalking
(section 1 Origin of the term: "jay, an inexperienced person and a curse word that originated in the early 1900s")

Quote: "Examples include a pedestrian crossing between intersections without yielding to drivers and starting to cross a crosswalk at a signalized intersection without waiting for a permissive indication to be displayed.