China's top court issues new guidelines that hotels, airports, and other commercial venues must get consent from customers to use facial recognition from Aug. 1
Eva Dou / Washington Post : Tweets: @sheenagreitens , @sophiehrw , @noahpinion , and @evadou Tweets: Sheena Greitens / @sheenagreitens : Note, however, that China's tightening control is primarily ov...
UN backs down on Tencent partnership for 75th anniversary after complaints from US officials and human rights groups that the company aids Chinese surveillance
The decision comes after U.S. officials and human rights advocates complained that Tencent aids Beijing in surveillance. Tweets: @lokmantsui and @sophiehrw Tweets: Lokman Tsui / @lokmantsui : update: ...
Survey of 6,154 people in China: 74% want the option to choose traditional ID methods over facial recognition, 84% want ability to review or delete their data
Financial Times : Tweets: @janoschdelcker , @hillmanje , @sophiehrw , @kenroth , and @yuanfenyang Tweets: Janosch Delcker / @janoschdelcker : This is interesting: A major survey suggests that a major...
Survey of 6,154 people in China: 74% want the option to choose traditional ID methods over facial recognition, 84% want ability to review or delete their data
Most people would like to be able to choose traditional methods of identification over facial recognition technology … Tweets: @janoschdelcker , @sophiehrw , @hillmanje , @kenroth , and @yuanfenyang T...
China's border guards close to Xinjiang install Android malware on tourists' devices that scans for 70K+ files and downloads texts, calendar entries, phone logs
An APK Chinese authorities load onto the Android phones … Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs : China installs a surveillance app on tourists' phones while crossing in the Xinjiang Harper Neidig / T...
How the Chinese government, long suspicious of internet companies, is now keen on harnessing tech companies' capital and knowledge to realize its goals
The government in China, long suspicious of internet companies, now sees ambitious titans like Tencent and Alibaba as useful partners. Tweets: @scs_disputes , @nytimes , @sophiehrw , and @paulmozur Tw...