Google has updated its AI smart speaker, but its new face-tracking technology will be seen by many as too intrusive. Its wide-angle lens scans the room for your face and tracks your hand movements.

Destruction of smart lamp posts by radicals reflects need to fully explain purpose of such installations and that they are not there to spy on public.

Facial recognition notifies users if their profile photo are used by someone else or if they appear in photos where they have not been tagged.

Two classrooms on Nanjing campus were chosen for pilot project – camera and the smart software behind it automatically capture students’ faces without their cooperation.

Police, governments and shops monitor people through AI-assisted facial recognition. The FBI has 30 million US citizens on its facial recognition database, while China’s is said to contain almost the whole population.

The latest batch of 10 new national AI champions include Xiaomi, JD.com, Qihoo 360, Megvii and Yitu.

Megvii’s pledge comes as the ethics debate over AI widens with the technology moving into more areas of human existence.

Police say man from Fujian province was detained while trying to burn body on remote farm but they had been tipped off by an online lender whose software spotted the victim’s eyes weren’t moving.

At Tsinghua University in Beijing, more than 3,800 new undergraduate students were processed using face-scanning machines.

Critics in the majority-black city point out that flawed facial recognition software misidentifies people of colour and women at much higher rates.

Police say the cameras will help cut spiralling violent crime, but opposition leaders fear the footage could be used to target demonstrators.

The AI traffic push in China comes amid rising resistance to the frictionless identification technology in many western countries on privacy grounds

Michael Deng’s software company, ArcSoft, sharpened its focus on mobile photography in 2004. That bet has paid off amid the rapid global growth of mobile phone users, who are estimated to surpass 5 billion this year.

There has been some backlash, particularly against the proposed deal between regional government and Chinese tech giant Huawei to provide CCTV cameras equipped with facial recognition technology.

Facial recognition has found its way onto trash cans as a means of preventing the incorrect dumping of waste.

Facial recognition tech promises next wave of payments convenience for consumers and has potential to include less tech-savvy users, such as the elderly.

The latest surveillance techniques combine facial recognition with methods to identify partially exposed faces, gait patterns and various distinguishing body features.

Chinese tech giants introduce apps that help residents stay out of trouble when it comes to sorting and disposing of their trash.

Deepfakes are altered by using artificial intelligence to appear genuine, and could be used to manipulate elections or potentially spark unrest.

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.