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• @lifewinning Ingrid Burrington on x

  https://www.ft.com/... “Requirements in the draft standard for facial recognition...stipulate a requirement to store detected facial features in a database, including race, skin colour, face style, birthmarks, scars and other demographic features.”

• @financialtimes @financialtimes on x

  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/...

• @fabiochiusi Fabio Chiusi on x

  “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/...

• @wavesblog Simonetta Vezzoso on x

  “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/...

• @ajitpaifcc Ajit Pai on x

  You don't say. https://www.ft.com/...

• @atulacharya Atul Acharya on x

  👇🙈🙊🙉 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/...

• @choermoraes Henrique Moraes on x

  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/...

• @daniellescave Danielle Cave on x

  “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/...

• @privacyproject @privacyproject on x

  “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/...

• @rushdoshi Rush Doshi on x

  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/...

• @financialtimes @financialtimes on x

  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/...

• @ft @ft on x

  Chinese tech groups writing UN facial recognition standards https://www.ft.com/...