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How Face Mask Selfies Are Proving Valuable to Train Face-Detection AI
Companies want to be able to detect your identity even while you wear a mask.
5G Roll Out Brings a New Wave of Surveillance to Tibet
Surveilling citizens is easier than ever before.
Twitter Tells Clearview AI to Back-Off, Stop Scraping User Data
Twitter doesn’t want user profile images scraped.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Raises the Alarm on Social Face Recognition Tech, Calls It “Real Black Mirror Stuff”
AOC says it’s time to put more scrutiny on face recognition tech.
Viral Video of Chinese Man Interrogation Reminds the West of the Horrors of the Chinese Social Credit System
The man was questioned over his social media activity.
Leaked Documents Show State-Owned Chinese Companies Are Shaping Global UN Facial Recognition Standards
Critics have warned that many of the technologies that threaten privacy and freedom of expression aren’t being challenged when standards are formed.
Facebook Tests Asking Users to Scan Their Face for Verification
What could go wrong?
Australia Wants Citizens to Unlock Online Porn With Their Face
Australia wants to implement a privacy-invasive idea that doesn’t work and that other countries realized was so bad they scrapped their plans.
China Has Developed Advanced Surveillance Tools to Track Uighurs
Censorship and repression by China continue to be a very important issue that isn’t going away anytime soon. In this latest case, security and intelligence officials from the United States revealed that since 2016 the Xi Jinping regime has created new cyber tools to spy on the citizens of the A
Chinese Companies Added to US Blacklist for Violating Rights of Uighur Muslims
Among the companies prominently targeted in these latest US policy moves are SenseTime and Megvii.
France’s National Face ID Database Is Coming Sooner Than Expected
How all of this will sit with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is yet to be seen.
