government placed Dahua on the Bureau of Industry and Security's Entity List for its role in mass surveillance of Uyghurs in Xinjiang and of other ethnic and religious minorities in China....
Trade enforcement ; Today, the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) took action to address the ongoing threats to U.S. national security and foreign policy presented by the People’s Republic of China (PRC)’s efforts to develop and deploy biotechnology and other technologies for military applications and human rights abuses. BIS is also taking action against entities operating in the PRC, Georgia, Malaysia, and Turkey for diverting or attempting to divert U.S. items to Iran’s military programs. ...
of surveillance and public security technology from China to the world. It begins by charting global patterns of technology adoption in the surveillance and policing sector, and then...
China has built a surveillance state that has increasingly incorporated AI-enabled technologies. Their use during the COVID-19 pandemic has softened the image of China’s surveillance system, presen...
but building custom surveillance technology to streamline state suppression of journalists is new. "These documents shed light on what China's public-security officials want from mass...
Security cameras and facial recognition technology are on the rise in China. In 2018, People's Daily, the media mouthpiece... high-tech surveillance technology now is they're trying to...
in China. I was given time to try and log in again the next day after my penalty had been... "Faceprint is required for security purposes," it said. I was instructed to hold my phone up...
public security did not respond to requests for comment about the system and its uses. The new software improves on Beijing's current approach to surveillance. Although China's existing...
safety and security, but it’s seen outside China as a means for more state control. Still, surveillance is not universally... recognition technology filed in Hangzhou. In that case, Guo...
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