Beijing reasserting control of businesses through new privacy law. Is it just PR?
Having amassed through deregulation as much economic power as it has ever had, the Chinese Communist Party is re-regulating businesses….
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Passport contracts spark controversy, new biometrics integration possibilities inspire optimism
Biometric passports and national ID cards are prominent among the top stories on Biometric Update over the past week, with…
UK Biometrics Commissioner: Hikvision in social control surveillance joint enterprise with Chinese State
Hikvision is contracted for 21 years for joint enterprises with the Chinese State on social control projects in Xinjiang Autonomous…
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…
Risk of foreign biometric surveillance highlighted by UK Commissioner
The UK Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner Professor Fraser Sampson has written a new letter to Baroness Williams, Minister of…
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…
Acuant wins crypto selfie biometrics customer as financial service providers address market gaps
Acuant headlines a group of selfie biometrics and regulatory compliance providers announcing customer wins, which also includes Visa, Basis ID,…
Chinese facial recognition deployments in India, Europe prompt warnings
Chinese-made surveillance projects including biometrics have accelerated in India in recent years, which were developed in the aftermath of terror…
Amnesty International logging every CCTV camera in NYC
An Amnesty International project known as Decoders is organizing a virtual inventory of CCTV and other public cameras in New…
Coppernic exec urges biometrics from European vendors for Entry-Exit System
The Managing Director of Coppernic has urged the EU to consider deploying European biometric solutions, like the terminals his company…
