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The draft Personal Information Protection Law will be a welcome tool in the fight against China’s rampant privacy breaches, but a cavalier attitude towards data protection persists among companies and officials, writes Wang Xiangwei.
The benefits of technology make its adoption an irreversible trend, but governments must ensure that the data is protected and not abused
Li Qiang, Vice-Premier Ding Xuexiang among Chinese leaders paying respects to the leading facial recognition expert and SenseTime co-founder, who died Friday.
Generative AI-based tools were used in at least 16 countries to distort information on political or social issues over the period June 2022 to May 2023, according to the annual Freedom on Net report.
Abdulla bin Touq Al Marri says one reason for trip to Belt and Road Summit in Hong Kong is to meet city tech firms that can broaden UAE’s oil-based economy.
Musk says the app’s voice and video calls will work on Apple and Android devices, as well as on computers.
Tech can only be used to process biometric data in ‘certain conditions’ and when there is ‘sufficient’ need, according to draft rules.
Up to 2,000 North Koreans were arrested after escaping to China during the coronavirus pandemic, and many are now languishing in camps near the Chinese border.
Constant surveillance with cameras using facial recognition technology violates prisoners’ privacy and increases risk of bias against minority communities, advocates say. And it’s not just Singapore.
The InvisDefense coat allows the wearer to be seen but not detected as human, with implications for anti-drone tech and the battlefield.
Despite concerns about privacy and surveillance, the tech – which uses AI to identify addicts who have asked to be barred from betting sites – will target problem gambling in a country where the addiction affects some 1 per cent of the population.
Speculation about retrenchment of workers in China’s AI industry reflects the uncertainties brought by US trade sanctions and further restrictions imposed by Washington.
The Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights does not set out specific enforcement actions, instead serving as guidance for the federal government.
Gamers aged between six and 17 totalled 83 million in China this year, down from 122 million two years ago, according to Niko Partners.
Big Brother Watch urged Britain’s Information Commissioner’s Office to investigate whether Southern Co-operative’s use of biometric scans, which monitors for blacklisted customers, violates data laws.
Andrew Chi-Chih Yao, one of AI’s most influential figures, has exerted a profound impact on the country’s technology pioneers, who have gone on to start multibillion-dollar start-ups.
What happened with SenseTime reflects how growing animosity between the US and China is catching Hong Kong in the crossfire between the world’s two largest economies.
American communities try to balance the benefits of new technology with the threats of a surveillance state.
Beijing Ubox Online Technology Corp, which posted over US$204 million in losses over the past two years, had been working for more than four years to list on the A-shares market, but withdrew its IPO application in 2021.
Virginia will end a prohibition on the use of the technology by local police in July and California and the city of New Orleans could be next.
DeepGlint, which was added to the US government’s trade blacklist in July last year, once targeted a US$300 billion valuation.
NPC and CPPCC delegates have suggested harsher measures to curb video game addiction, including a complete ban for minors, reflecting the rigid political climate in Beijing.
SenseTime’s latest initiative enables it to compete in China’s nascent automated industry inspection market, which is led by major tech firms Baidu, Huawei and Alibaba.
US Treasury claims SenseTime is responsible for ‘human rights abuse enabled by the malign use of technology’.
The UN agency’s recommendations come more than a month after China introduced its own set of ethical guidelines governing artificial intelligence.
A farm near Shanghai has been working on facial recognition technology for its goats since 2019 using security cameras that watch over the animals and can identify different features.
The social media giant will shut down the long-criticised system and delete scan data on a billion people.
More than 80 Chinese papers highlighted, including where DNA profiling of Uygurs and Tibetans is involved and voluntary consent is hard to establish.
Founded in 2014, Hong Kong start-up SenseTime has quickly become China’s biggest artificial intelligence company.