China intensifies biometrics, video surveillance research as social credit market builds
China leads all other nations in publishing research on the visual surveillance of populations, one of the most controversial segments…
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Japan takes a good, very long look at its options in China biometrics puzzle
Japan could join the United States and the European Union in restricting biometric surveillance technology to some autocratic governments, not…
Biometric mass surveillance pitched in alleged Huawei company materials
Huawei’s involvement in tracking Chinese citizens has come under renewed scrutiny regarding the use of biometric identification systems. The Washington…
US to blacklist SenseTime in time for Hong Kong IPO
The U.S. Treasury is to place Chinese artificial intelligence and biometrics firm SenseTime on the “Chinese military-industrial complex companies” blacklist…
Chinese province to use facial recognition to track foreign journalists and others
Chinese firm Neusoft, backed by Huawei’s cloud services, has won a tender from the government of China’s central Henan province…
Facial recognition deployments with lax regulation under scrutiny worldwide
Several facial recognition projects around the world have recently come under scrutiny, spurred by concerns of privacy advocates that the…
Regulators try to take more teeth from the maw of Chinese CCTV vendors
The U.S. and UK pressure campaigns to enforce ethical principles on Chinese facial recognition players have taken some new turns…
Are we normalizing ourselves into a capitalist surveillance state?
There is a promoted article tease tucked into an MIT Technology Review story this week about how, in China, the…
How close are Dutch biometrics researchers to China’s Uyghur oppression?
Working with researchers linked to organizations involved with concentration camps in China is not a good look, as three labs…
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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