Facial recognition comes to your taxi ride...

And it can get you in trouble.

An article described how taxis in Dubai now hat facial recognition technology to tell if people are wearing masks in compliance with Dubai law.

Some points from the article:

• "The AI devices that can be found in all Dubai taxis can scan human faces, and subsequently, determine if a mask is being worn or not."
• "Additionally, the distance between a passenger and the driver can be calculated through a smart mathematical feature."

How do the authorities like it?

• “The use of AI technologies proved very effective and achieved a success rate of 100%."
• "The introduction of this technology was on a trial base, and according to the deliverables, the technology will be generalised to all fleet vehicles”