Surveillance cameras manufactured by Hikvision on a post at a testing station near the company’s headquarters in Hangzhou, China. Photo: Bloomberg
exclusive | How the US plans to crack down on Chinese facial recognition tech used to ‘strengthen authoritarian governments’
- A proposed bill reflects a broader campaign underway in the US to check the spread of Chinese tech
- Hangzhou-based Hikvision, for example, has been criticised for its role in the detention and surveillance of the Uygur minority population in Xinjiang
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US-China tech war
Surveillance cameras manufactured by Hikvision on a post at a testing station near the company’s headquarters in Hangzhou, China. Photo: Bloomberg