Since 2004, tit-for-tat violence in the region has claimed around 7,000 lives, mostly civilians, and security forces have detained suspected separatists without warrants in the past.

As the company’s managing director and head of strategic investments, Wong has focused on deals within the AI ecosystem and finding long-term strategic partners.

A proposed bill reflects a broader campaign underway in the US to check the spread of Chinese tech and coincides with rising anxiety in the US about the country’s fading dominance in the tech sphere.

Human Rights Watch said Megvii’s Face++ code found in mobile app used by Xinjiang authorities was ‘inoperable’.

Students say it doesn’t always recognise faces and they have long waits to go through the system at the entrances to two huge dormitories.

Megvii is among dozens of Chinese AI companies that have mushroomed over the past years as China eyes global leadership in what has been called the fourth industrial revolution.

It is heartening that Hong Kong is taking steps to use CCTV technology in transport planning without compromising people’s privacy.

Researchers build database of 120,000 images and 10,000 video clips to help them correctly identify individual animals

State surveillance camera makers largely benefited from the rise in demand for the technology after 9/11 terror attacks.

The CEO of the world’s most valuable AI start-up says standard guidelines would help manage how these advanced systems are deployed.

Backers of the D round included Bank of China Group Investment, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, Macquarie Group and ICBC Asset Management

DeepGlint joins a host of other facial recognition tech companies such as SenseTime Group and Megvii competing to help authorities maintain public order.

Lawyer said Apple stores matched Ousmane Bah’s name with a thief’s face in the company’s security system.

Victor Gevers, co-founder of non-profit organisation GDI.Foundation, tweeted in February that a SenseNets online database was left unprotected for months.

Many researchers have shown how AI systems, which look for patterns in huge troves of data, will mimic the institutional biases embedded in the data they are learning from

Cloudwalk, along with competitor AI start-ups such as SenseTime and Megvii, are helping to power the country’s massive surveillance network

Zen Soo speaks with Miro founder and CEO Taylor Hun about facial recognition technology at marathon running events and how companies are using the data

Advances in security and surveillance technologies mean the days of elderly guards manning posts at commercial and residential establishments are numbered.

Facial recognition payment is the next step in evolution of cashless transactions in China, home to the world’s biggest internet population.

Police in Beijing, Shanghai and Chongqing have run trials of software that can identify a person from 50 metres away – even if they have their face covered or back to a camera.

The move is the latest example of Beijing using facial recognition technology to not only keep an eye on its citizens but also to make sure they behave themselves

Billionaire investor speaking in Davos, Switzerland, warns about China’s use of artificial intelligence to keep tabs on its citizens.

With the technology being used in New York and elsewhere in the United States, China is exporting its cutting-edge facial recognition across the Pacific.

The technology is gaining traction in a range of consumer electronic products, cars, and retail and hotel services

Consumers in 2016 alleged the firm violated state law by collecting and storing biometric data from people’s photos

The smart lock is one of the latest hi-tech tools authorities are using to keep an eye on its citizens

So-called deception detection system will supposedly analyse expressions of people trying to enter Europe to see whether they are telling the truth.

Guangzhou’s metro operator will open one security channel fitted with new technology in each of four stations across the city on Friday.