It comes as last month, the U.S. launched its own network initiative that attempts to ringfence the country’s internet from Chinese influence. The Chinese government announced its own global data security initiative on Tuesday outlining issues that include handling of personal data and surveillance, in a move that aims to counter the Trump administration’s “Clean […]
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Ms Markson, on her program on Sky News, has revealed how Chinese activists have now uncovered a new facial recognition database targeting an ethnic minority group. The Chinese Communist Party has previously used facial recognition to target minority groups including the Uighurs and Tibetans, by using high-tech surveillance which is then mobilized to imprison dissidents […]
The US bans on Chinese apps TikTok and WeChat are not particularly valuable for US security, but could step up broader commercial pressure on Beijing and help President Donald Trump appear tough as he seeks reelection. WeChat ban especially, experts say, actually harms a large number of Chinese Americans, US-based Chinese, and businesses working with […]
Hundreds of facial recognition cameras, supplied by Huawei, are currently deployed in Serbia’s capital Belgrade, and thousands more are on their way, as part of an initiative police officials have said will make the capital safer. However, privacy advocates are sounding the alarm over what they claim are the far-reaching ramifications the use of the […]
Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Twitter and other major technology companies say they have suspended processing requests for user data from Hong Kong authorities after China’s new national security law come into force late June. Provisions include police having more power to demand information or compel companies to take down information from the internet, as well as […]
TikTok has claimed that the Chinese government has never requested for user data, nor would the company turn it over if asked. TikTok has sought to distance itself from Beijing after it was banned in India earlier this week. In a letter to the Indian government dated June 28th, the company’s CEO, Kevin Mayer, said […]
China is poised to enshrine individuals’ rights to privacy and personal data for the first time, a symbolic first step as more of the country of 1.4 billion people becomes digitised – and more vulnerable to leaks and hacks. The legislation is part of China’s first civil code, a sweeping package of laws that is […]
Foreign state-sponsored hackers have launched a massive hacking operation aimed at Chinese government agencies and their employees. Attacks began last month, in March, and are believed to be related to the current coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. Targets included government agencies in Beijing and Shanghai and Chinese diplomatic missions abroad. Source: DarkHotel hackers use VPN zero-day to breach […]
Although China has tools that many other governments would not be able to usually deploy to track potentially infected people, such as location data from individual phones and facial recognition technology, the state’s ability to access personal data is at times limited. Co-ordination between different areas of the public sector is often sporadic and sometimes […]
A major client of the Beijing-based Hanwang Technology Ltd, which developed this technology, is the Ministry of Public Security, which runs the police. A Chinese company says it has developed the country’s first facial recognition technology that can identify people when they are wearing a mask, as most are these days because of the coronavirus, […]