UK panel sketches the reach of ethnicity recognition systems across China
The scale of systems behind China’s alleged persecution of minorities — chiefly Uyghurs — continue to beggar the imagination. The…
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Governments adding biometrics, digitizing ID worldwide: Zimbabwe passports, China mDLs, Belarus ID cards
National ID continues to go biometric and digital around the world. Zimbabwe’s Civil Registry prepares to go digital with Semlex…
China, of all nations, now a leader in private biometric curbs. But for how long?
With a decision handed down late last month, China’s Supreme People’s Court appears to have put the autocratic nation ahead…
AI researchers won’t be playing ‘trust fall’ with Facebook. Or China
There are organizations that AI researchers trust less than Facebook, according to a new paper, and they are all Chinese….
China is not slowing its global surveillance industry march
A new examination of China’s biometric surveillance industry worldwide describes almost unbridled growth — growth that United States tech firms…
China court interpretation to limit use of facial recognition
The deployment of facial recognition in China looks set to change after the Supreme People’s Court issued a judicial ruling…
China fights COVID with ‘one database, code and platform,’ UAE goes with auras
Biometric COVID-19 fever apps are making news again, in two cities, and in very novel ways. Meanwhile, privacy advocates who…
Who’s the next U.S. funder to get tangled in Washington’s China sanctions
Before last week, those paying close attention to who was sanctioned by the U.S. government for involvement with China’s repression…
A tri-polar privacy world: China, EU, US conflict on rights regimes
There’s an old African saying: When two elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers. And when elephants make love,…
China easily gets around US biometrics bans in Uyghur region — report
It is illegal and unethical for U.S. firms to sell DNA sequencers to police in China’s Xinjiang territory, yet according…
