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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.

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  • Li Qiang, Vice-Premier Ding Xuexiang among Chinese leaders paying respects to the leading facial recognition expert and SenseTime co-founder, who died on Friday
  • Unusually high-profile list of mourners signals the importance Beijing places on the nation’s tech leaders and innovators
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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.

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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.

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Tech can only be used to process biometric data in ‘certain conditions’ and when there is ‘sufficient’ need, according to draft rules.

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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.

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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.

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.

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Speculation about retrenchment of workers in China’s AI industry reflects the uncertainties brought by US trade sanctions and further restrictions imposed by Washington.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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More than 80 Chinese papers highlighted, including where DNA profiling of Uygurs and Tibetans is involved and voluntary consent is hard to establish.

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