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Facial Recognition

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DHS wants to expand airport face recognition scans to include US citizens – TechCrunch

Homeland Security wants to expand facial recognition checks for travelers arriving and departing the U.S. to also include citizens, which…

artificial intelligence, China technology, Facial Recognition, huawei, News, SCMP, surveillance, us-china trade war, zte

Chinese tech firms are shaping UN facial recognition standards, documents show

ZTE, Dahua, and China Telecom are among those proposing new international standards. Source link

artificial intelligence, China, China technology, data privacy, Facial Recognition, News, SCMP, surveillance

Data privacy woes grow as China’s facial recognition tech advances

In China, facial recognition is used for everything, from identifying and shaming jaywalkers to stopping toilet paper theft. Source link

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A 10-point plan to reboot the data industrial complex for the common good – TechCrunch

A posthumous manifesto by Giovanni Buttarelli, who until his death this summer was Europe’s chief data protection regulator, seeks to…

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In China, AI can now screen newborns for genetic disorders

The new assistive diagnosis tool was designed to detect more than 100 disorders with distinctive facial features. Source link

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facial recognition lawsuit and cashless payments for foreigners – TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China Roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what…

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Huawei, China Unicom to deploy 5G travel system at Beijing’s new airport

Passengers traveling with China Eastern Airlines will be able to use face scanning to check in their luggage, clear security,…

artificial intelligence, China startup, Facial Recognition, News, SenseTime, Startups

Alibaba-backed AI startup SenseTime sees over $7.5b valuation

But the company has “no concrete plan” for an IPO for now, SenseTime co-founder and CEO said. Source link

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In brief: Alibaba-backed AI firm Megvii files for $500m Hong Kong IPO, sources say

Megvii may raise as much as US$1 billion in the IPO, said one of the people with knowledge of the…

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China universities deploy facial recognition for student registration

At Tsinghua University in Beijing, more than 3,800 new undergraduate students were processed using face-scanning machines. Source link