Examples of the usage include in the Western Balkans

• EU citizens being able to pass borders at airports outside the EU just by "showing" their passports to a machine and looking at the camera. This particular possibility is according to the article enabled through a shared database of faces and algorithms powered by facial recognition technology, whereby "computer systems recognize your face and are smart to read your travel documents, so you can just continue walking".
• A second example is the implementation of Chinese facilitation recognition technology in Belgrade, Serbia, where it is supposed to enhance public safety. The author warns however that "if implemented without appropriate rules around it that protect privacy, it can be dangerous.", referring to a study that analyzes the system and its potential dangers in Serbia. In other Western Balkans countries such systems seem not to be in place so far.

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