On WeChat last weekend, "Fatty Zhao, scholar of Song Dynasty history" reflected on a recent fire at a Shandong university. The students’ escape route was blocked by facial recognition turnstiles through which...
Last week, the bodies of eight Chinese nationals were discovered off the coast of Oaxaca, Mexico, after their boat capsized along a route often used by migrants attempting to reach the U.S. This is the latest example of an...
China will soon hand over a newly constructed $140-million-dollar parliamentary building to Zimbabwe. Built by contractor Shanghai Construction Group Company and funded by the Chinese government, the building is the latest...
Emotion recognition technology is being marketed globally as the next frontier of facial recognition, with proponents claiming it particularly well-suited for two starkly different environments: schools and prisons. In the...
As the modern era is increasingly defined by the massive amounts of data generated by everyday transactions and the ways that authorities process this data to target, monitor, monetize, and control the people, Chinese web users...
The array of surveillance technologies being deployed across China has been receiving widespread attention. At The New York Times this week, Paul Mozur and Aaron Krolik looked at how these surveillance tools are being combined...
At The Financial Times on Friday, Yuan Yang and Madhumita Murgia offered an overview of facial recognition technology’s adoption in China, public reception, and widespread export: What do Uganda’s police force, a Mongolian...
Chinese state media reported last week that Beijing’s subway system will soon use facial recognition technology to classify and divide passengers into groups for different security screenings. The news was announced at the end...
At Quartz, Jane Li reports on a statement released late last month by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, that anyone applying for a new mobile and data service plan will need to have their faces scanned by...
Last week, The New York Times launched The Privacy Project, a major, months-long examination of...
A stream of recent analysis and news coverage has continued to examine the development of advanced...
Over the past several months, dozens of Chinese Twitter users within China have reportedly been...
“From a technical point of view, we still lag behind developed countries such as the United...
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a new defense policy bill that will, upon Senate...
Human Rights Watch’s Maya Wang warned this week about Chinese authorities’ combination...
As new Chinese surveillance technology spreads across the country and beyond, Sixth Tone’s...
Under Party Chief Chen Quanguo, a hardliner who was credited for quelling a wave of unrest in...
China’s top tech companies have often expressed willingness to share users’ personal...
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