Iranian authorities plan to use facial recognition to enforce new hijab law

Government says it will use technology on public transport in crackdown on
womenâs dress

The Iranian government is planning to use facial recognition technology on
public transport to identify women who are not complying with a strict new
law on wearing the hijab, as the regime continues its increasingly punitive
crackdown on womenâs dress.

The secretary of Iran's Headquarters for Promoting Virtue and Preventing
Vice, Mohammad Saleh Hashemi Golpayegani, announced in a recent interview
that the government was planning to …

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