China accounted for nearly half of the global facial recognition business in 2018 per IHS, but it is facing competition from rivals from Japan, US, and Israel
What do Uganda's police force, a Mongolian prison and Zimbabwean airports have in common? All three are in the process … Tweets: @financialtimes and @yuanfenyang Tweets: @financialtimes : Chinese facial recognition companies have taken the lead in serving an international market populated by authoritarian regimes where privacy often takes a back seat — but the US is catching up. The question seems to be: who do you want to be spied on by? https://www.ft.com/... Yuan Yang / @yuanfenyang : “A lot of these governments, whether it's liberal democracies or more autocratic, are in tenuous positions... Now there's tech that allows them to fight back against political mobilisation”. My big read this weekend with @madhumita29 @FT 1/ https://www.ft.com/...