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1) 6-14-2019 China showcased how its education system started using facial recognition and AI in classrooms….in China parents and progressive teachers began immediately questioning the approach and called it “the jailification (in Chinese: 监狱化) of the classroom”.
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2) 5-9-19 Atawula is one of around 34,000 Uyghurs in Turkey. She is unable to contact any of her relatives—via phone, WeChat, or any other app. “I feel very sad when I see other people video chatting with their families,” she says. “I think, why can’t we even hear the voice of our children?”
For Uyghurs in Xinjiang any kind of contact from a non-Chinese phone number, though not officially illegal, can result in instant arrest. Most Uyghurs in Turkey have been deleted by their families on social media. And many wouldn’t dare try to make contact, for fear Chinese authorities would punish their relatives. https://www.wired.com/story/inside-chinas-massive-surveillance-operation/
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Outside the camps Uighurs live in a virtual cage. China has built a vast net of controls that shows the Communist Party’s vision of automated authoritarianism. Neighbors become informants. Children are interrogated. Mosques are monitored….
Every 100 yards or so, the police stand at checkpoints with guns, shields and clubs. Many are Uighurs. The surveillance couldn’t work without them. Uighurs line up, stone-faced, to swipe their official identity cards. At big checkpoints, they lift their chins while a machine takes their photos, and wait to be notified if they can go on.
The police sometimes take Uighuirs’ phones and check to make sure they have installed compulsory software that monitors calls and messages….
Chinese companies are earning a fortune selling this surveillance technology. They make it sound like a sci-fi miracle allowing the police to track people with laser precision.
But spend time in Xinjiang and you see that the surveillance state acts more like a sledgehammer—sweeping, indiscriminate; as much about intimidation as monitoring. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/04/world/asia/xinjiang-china-surveillance-prison.html
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4) 3-29-2019 It has long been understood that Tencent--the Chinese company that owns WeChat and QQ, two of the world’s most widely used social media applications--facilitates Chinese government censorship and surveillance. But over the past year, the scale and significance of this activity have increased and become more visible, both inside and outside China…..On March 2, Dutch hacker Victor Gevers revealed that the content of millions of conversations on Tencent applications among users at internet cafés are being relayed, along with the users’ identities, to police stations across China. https://freedomhouse.org/blog/worried-about-huawei-take-closer-look-tencent
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15) -11-19 A new partnership between an American vehicle cockpit electronics supplier and a major Chinese conglomerate, Tencent, is poised to see the development of sophisticated biometric technologies for autonomous cars. One of the key players in the agreement is Michigan-based Visteon, which recently showcased facial recognition and gaze-tracking technologies for consumer vehicles at last autumn’s Electric Vehicle… https://findbiometrics.com/topics/tencent/
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6) 10-3-2018 “Tencent says its aim is to use facial recognition technology to match players against their government databases in order to verify their ages, which suggests it’s working closely with government authorities.” At the Chinese government’s behest, Tencent Holdings says it is exploring the use of facial recognition technology….in compelling a theoretically private company to use biometric identification on its customers, the state is clearly wielding the power of biometric surveillance indirectly. https://findbiometrics.com/facial-recognition-to-enforce-age-restriction-on-mobile-game-in-china/
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7) 2-17-2016 Called Qualcomm Haven, the authentication system accords with Tencent’s SOTER protocol, ensuring that it relies on fingerprint scanning and matching, stores the biometric data locally, and transmits it to Tencent’s servers. To start it will be available on the Vivo X6 smartphone, but Qualcomm says more devices will launch with Qualcomm Haven in the months to come.
Commenting on the authentication system, Qualcomm Technologies senior director of product management Sy Choudhury described it as a “framework” that “supports convient, robust security and the latest mobile payment standards.” He also pointed to additional biometric modalities offered by Qualcomm Haven, asserting that it allows users to “simply rely on their finger, face, or eye for account access and conducting online transactions using their mobile devices--all while being reassured that each step of the process is being executed with hardware-level security.”
The partnership with China-based Tencent should provide an opportunity to bring this kind of biometric authentication to a wide swath of consumers; WeChat is a social media app with hundreds of millions of monthly users, and its mPayment feature could soon introduce many of them to fingerprint-authenticated transactions. https://findbiometrics.com/qualcomm-haven-biometrically-protects-wechat-302176/
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