Leaked documents show how China is trying to shape global standards for facial recognition, video monitoring, city and vehicle surveillance tech via UN's ITU
Chinese technology companies are shaping new facial recognition and surveillance standards at the UN, according to leaked documents obtained …
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@financialtimes
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Exclusive: Leaked documents obtained by the Financial Times reveal that Chinese technology companies such as ZTE, Dahua and China Telecom are shaping new facial recognition and surveillance standards at the UN https://www.ft.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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@ajitpaifcc
Ajit Pai
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You don't say. https://www.ft.com/...
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@fabiochiusi
Fabio Chiusi
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“Data from African markets is of particular interest to Chinese companies, who are looking to improve the accuracy of their facial recognition algorithms, particularly to identify people of colour” https://twitter.com/...
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@wavesblog
Simonetta Vezzoso
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“There are virtually no human rights, consumer protection, or data protection experts present in ITU standards meetings so many of the technologies that threaten privacy and freedom of expression remain unchallenged in these spaces” @arcapde https://twitter.com/...
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@atulacharya
Atul Acharya
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👇🙈🙊🙉 Welcome to the 2020s #surveillance dystopia now with standardized #FacialRecognition across countries ..brought to you by international standards ..with “help” from Chinese telecom behemoths ..deployed soon in YOUR country 🕵🏻 https://www.techmeme.com/...
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@choermoraes
Henrique Moraes
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China's regulation of data serves (among other goals) the geoeconomic purpose of boosting its leadership in AI, as I argue at https://papers.ssrn.com/... Standard-setting on facial recognition is the intl manifestation of this strategy by China. https://www.ft.com/...
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@daniellescave
Danielle Cave
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“ITU standards are increasingly being authored by companies as opposed to government officials, according to members of international ITU delegations, and China's influence in drafting and setting the standards at the UN has grown in recent years” https://www.ft.com/...
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@privacyproject
@privacyproject
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“Over the past few years, Chinese surveillance infrastructure has swept across regions from Angola to Zimbabwe” @AnnaSophieGross, @madhumita29 and @yuanfenyang write in @FT https://www.ft.com/...
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@rushdoshi
Rush Doshi
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Fascinating and disturbing piece on how the PRC is shaping international standards for facial recognition and surveillance — to the benefit of its firms and the normalization of its political system. A few key excerpts: 1/ https://www.ft.com/...
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@financialtimes
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Exclusive: Chinese technology companies are shaping new facial recognition and surveillance standards at the UN, according to leaked documents, as they try to open up new markets in the developing world for their cutting-edge technologies https://www.ft.com/...
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@ft
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Chinese tech groups writing UN facial recognition standards https://www.ft.com/...