A consortium of Japanese railway companies is putting digital billboards that are capable of detecting the age and the gender of people who look at them in train stations in Tokyo. Though the billboards do not immediately update, à la Minority Report, to target the detected face, the information collected can be used to modify the billboards based on the prevalent demographic of passersby at certain times of the day.
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