5-29-19 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates
As a backlash against facial recognition technology grows in the US, a host of Chinese and American
firms are competing to supply Dubai’s police force with biometric surveillance and artificial intelligence products….
But even as the technology comes under more scrutiny in the United States, tech giants such as IBM, and China’s Hikvision and Huawei, are marketing biometric surveillance systems in the UAE, where citizens have fewer options to push back. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/dubai-facial-recognition-technology-ibm-huawei-hikvision
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5-17-19 As we walk around, our faces could be scanned and subjected to a digital police line up we don’t even know about. There are over 6 million surveillance cameras in the U.K.--more per citizen than any other country in the world, except China. In the U.K., biometric photos are taken and stored of people whose faces match with criminals--even if the match is incorrect. https://time.com/5590343/uk-facial-recognition-cameras-china/
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China’s facial recognition database includes nearly every one of China’s 1.4 billion citizens.
Shanghai-based YITU Technology has gained wide recognition for its
facial scan platform that can identify a person from a database of at least
2 billion people in a matter of seconds….
Ranked No. 20 on CNBC’s 2019 Disruptor 50 list, YITU has raised more than $400 million from investors, such as China Industrial Asset Management, ICBC International Holdings and Sequoia Capital, and is currently valued at $2 billion. The security surveillance market is $120 billion in China alone, and the company now wants to export its product globally. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/16/this-chinese-facial-recognition-start-up-can-id-a-person-in-seconds.html
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3-119 At KFC stores across China, people can scan their face to buy fried chicken, which has been around since 2017.
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3-6-19 More than 60 companies took part in the most recent rounds of testing. The rankings are dominated by entrants from Russia and China, where governments are bullish about facial recognition and relatively unconcerned about privacy. “It’s (YITU is) considered the industry standard and users rely on NIST’s benchmark for their business decisions and purchases,” says Shuang Wu, a Yitu research scientist and head of Yitu’s Silicon Valley outpost. “Both Chinese and international customers ask about it.”
Yitu’s technology is in use by police and at subway stations and ATMs. It’s currently ranked first on one of NIST’s two main tests, which challenges algorithms to detect when two photos show the same face. That task is at the heart of systems that check passports or control access to buildings and computer systems. The next five best-performing companies on that test are Russian or Chinese. https://www.wired.com/story/china-earns-high-marks-us-test-facial-recognition/
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