Crackdown on illegal birth certificates in China after hospital revelations
China is cracking down on the illegal trade in children’s birth certificates, which according to the country’s top health regulator…
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Short seller sounds alarm on SenseTime revenues, citing smart city decline and fraud
SenseTime is defending itself from accusation of fabricating revenue, or at least a lack of risk management, by short seller…
Chinese biometric surveillance developers Nuctech, Hikvision under scrutiny again
Chinese surveillance equipment maker Nuctech, which has been blacklisted in the U.S. and restricted in the European Union, is attracting…
Thermo Fisher DNA identifiers at issue in call for new China sanctions
A special U.S. Congressional commission is urging the departments of Commerce, State and Treasury to restrict the export of DNA…
Growth stymied on all sides of biometric surveillance firm SenseTime
SenseTime, China’s public biometric software and compute services company, has a market capitalization of $5.9 billion. That’s almost a dollar…
Muslim-fearing nation and fearful Muslim nation rumored building biometric monitor network
Two of the world’s most rigidly authoritarian regimes have deep-seated problems with Islam and intend to erase their problems using…
Chinese govt limits what biometrics and data can be used to train generative AI
Data used to train AI should be subject to a security assessment to identify “illegal and harmful information” and organizations…
Taiwanese pols raise security concerns with biometric gear from China, Thailand
The acquisition of biometric attendance machines from China and Thailand by some municipal offices in Taiwan’s capital Taipei has sparked…
Scholars propose unified global regulations on facial recognition
Four professors from MIT, Harvard, and Oxford propose in an article published on voxdev.org that facial recognition, without global trade…
Myanmar seeks China’s input on ID system, Israel’s facial recognition bill faces backlash
Myanmar is seeking input from China on introducing a biometric identification system, a project that has raised concern among rights…
