18 June 2019
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- How the US Plans to Crack Down on Chinese Facial Recognition Tech Used to “Strengthen Authoritarian Governments”
How the US Plans to Crack Down on Chinese Facial Recognition Tech Used to “Strengthen Authoritarian Governments”
United States senator Brian Schatz is pushing to ban countries including China from an influential US government accuracy test of facial recognition technology, potentially opening up a new front in the escalating tech war between Washington and Beijing. “Both China and US are trying to increasingly regulate their technological fortresses,” said Michael Raska, an assistant professor at RSIS in Singapore. “This means narrowing down the choices for critical digital infrastructure suppliers, including those providing algorithms for facial recognition.”
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