Cities across China have debuted crime-fighting facial recognition technology to much fanfare over the past year. But some of these jaywalker-busting devices aren’t as impressive as they seem.
https://apnews.com/4997bb7aa36c45449b488e19ac83e86d
If true, it would be a profound leap of science and ethics.
Many mainstream scientists think it’s too unsafe to try, and some denounced the Chinese report as human experimentation.
By the end of May, people with bad credit in China have been blocked from booking more than 11 million flights and 4 million high-speed train trips
https://www.wsj.com/articles/washington-asks-allies-to-drop-huawei-1542965105
U.S. worried about potential Chinese meddling in 5G networks
One U.S. concern centers on the use of Chinese telecom equipment in countries that host American military bases
“Chinese espionage services used telecommunications giant Huawei’s staff to get access codes to infiltrate a foreign network.”
The attack took place within the last two years.
https://edition-m.cnn.com/2018/11/01/asia/internet-freedom-china-censorship-intl/index.html
the internet is an excellent tool for social control, enabling surveillance and guiding of public opinion that would have been impossible in the past.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qv9npv/bloomberg-china-supermicro-apple-hack
No one is really sure who to believe after Businessweek’s bombshell story on an alleged Chinese supply chain attack against Apple, Amazon, and others.
An Icelandic startup called Aha is using a Chinese-made drone and an Israeli logistics system to deliver hot food, groceries, and electronics to households in Iceland’s capital city of Reykjavik.
https://theintercept.com/2018/08/28/google-china-censorship-plan-human-rights/
represents “an alarming capitulation by Google on human rights” and could result in the company “directly contributing to, or [becoming] complicit in, human rights violations.”