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Huawei, Hikvision, Dahua face lawsuit for role in Uyghur biometric surveillance
The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) – an international organization defending the interest of Uyghur people in and out of China…
| Feb 27, 2025 | Mali to launch worldwide digital platform for diasporaMali is implementing a national digital platform to facilitate access to important documents for the Malian diaspora. The new digital… |
| Jan 8, 2025 | Facial recognition, digital ID firms land on DOD’s list of Chinese military companiesThe U.S. Department of Defense always marks the start of a new year by updating its list of Chinese companies… |
| Dec 9, 2024 | Cameroon live facial recognition project still trying to identify a bankerThe President of Cameroon, Paul Biya, last week directed his government to source for money from a Chinese bank for… |
| Aug 20, 2024 | Malawi’s digital transformation drive faces risks without data protection legislationMalawi is in full pursuit of its digital transformation drive which includes the construction of a National Data Center with… |
| May 20, 2024 | Huawei accelerates global digital transformation with digital ID, ICT and 5G projectsIn recent years, global telecommunications provider Huawei Technologies has significantly ramped up its involvement in infrastructure projects aimed at supporting… |
| Mar 25, 2024 | Cameroon wants €50M to expand facial recognition surveillance projectCameroon’s President Paul Biya has asked his Minister of Economy, Alamine Ousmane Mey, to source funding to the tune of… |
| Mar 19, 2024 | Patent for ultrasonic fingerprint biometrics among thousands Huawei files each yearA Huawei patent for ultrasonic fingerprint identification technology has been recently published. The patent application for CN117058725A describes “an ultrasonic… |
| Oct 24, 2023 | Muslim-fearing nation and fearful Muslim nation rumored building biometric monitor networkTwo of the world’s most rigidly authoritarian regimes have deep-seated problems with Islam and intend to erase their problems using… |
| Sep 21, 2023 | Huawei applies for 3D face biometric unlock patentThe Chinese smartphone and electronics giant is seeking a patent on a multi-level authentication method that uses 3D facial recognition… |
| Sep 4, 2023 | Chinese tech firms hoping to put out more deepfake productsChinese tech giants, including the likes of Alibaba and Huawei, have filed 110 applications related to deepfake technology to China’s… |
| Jun 20, 2023 | Discredited biometric surveillance project in Malta closed, but is it?Facial recognition networks might bring tiny Malta more security from street crime someday but right now it’s caught in a… |
| Jun 20, 2023 | Cameroon launches video surveillance with live facial recognition in largest cityAn Annex facility of the National Command and Control Centre for Video Surveillance has gone operational in Douala in a… |
| Feb 22, 2023 | Chinese biometric surveillance camera vendors in West take cases to the media and courtsTo date, the reaction in China to mounting government actions toward its biometric surveillance industry has been comparatively muted. Here… |
| Jan 9, 2023 | Malta deep-sixes safe city facial recognition project after Huawei contract expiresMalta appears to have changed course on a plan to launch a CCTV network with facial recognition through a contract… |
| Dec 9, 2022 | Invisibility cloak hides wearer from biometric cameras and exposes security loopholesMove over, Harry Potter: students at Wuhan University in China have won an award for developing a virtual invisibility cloak,… |
| Oct 3, 2022 | Serbia lobbying Western support to carry on with smart city biometrics project amid criticismSerbian officials are reportedly negotiating financial and technical support for U.S. and Swedish smart city tech, drawing criticism from citizens… |
| Sep 13, 2022 | Pakistan safe city project stalls with nearly 1K facial recognition cameras not functioningSince it was rolled out in 2016, the Lahore safe city project in Punjab province has been facing major challenges,… |
| Aug 18, 2022 | Qatar equips 15,000 cameras with facial recognition for soccer World Cup 2022FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar will be held at 8 stadiums and watched by millions of fans, along with… |
| Jan 3, 2022 | Facial recognition vendor Huawei digs deeper into strategic SerbiaHuawei‘s methodical investment, and alleged bribery, in Serbia continues to pay dividends. The strategic and historically restive east European nation… |
