<div dir="ltr"><div>Related: US House approves Uighur Act calling for sanctions on China's senior officials. The vote was almost unanimous at 407-1. It has already passed the Senate but will go back for another vote since the bill was changed in the House. </div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/178">https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/178</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/04/us-house-approves-uighur-act-calling-for-sanctions-on-chinas-politburo-xinjiang-muslim">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/04/us-house-approves-uighur-act-calling-for-sanctions-on-chinas-politburo-xinjiang-muslim</a><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 11:06 PM Yosem Companys <<a href="mailto:ycompanys@gmail.com">ycompanys@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px 0px 18px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:16px">Unfortunately paywalled. -- YC</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 18px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:16px">*****</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 18px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:16px">China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said its facial-recognition efforts are aimed at minimizing telephone fraud and preventing the reselling and illegal transfer of mobile phone cards. But the requirement raises new privacy concerns, <a href="https://cio.cmail19.com/t/d-l-xhyhtkl-ykkiutddtj-o/" style="color:rgb(0,128,195)" target="_blank">The Wall Street Journal’s Liza Lin and Shan Li report</a>.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 18px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:16px"><em>True.</em> China is home to some of the world’s most prominent facial recognition startups, and citizens can make payments, board planes and enter office buildings with a quick scan of the face.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 18px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:16px"><em>Also true</em>. The new regulation gives the Chinese state the ability to better track people based on ethnicity and other factors, Ben Cavender, Shanghai-based managing director at China Market Research Group, tells the WSJ. The technology's use in China has been controversial, most notably in Xinjiang, a region in the country’s northwest where authorities have used the technology to surveil its Uighur Muslim minority.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 18px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:16px"><strong>More companies in the U.K. try tracking faces</strong>. The U.K. has more surveillance cameras per capita than any other country in the West.<a href="https://cio.cmail19.com/t/d-l-xhyhtkl-ykkiutddtj-b/" style="color:rgb(0,128,195)" target="_blank"> The Wall Street Journal's Parmy Olson reports</a> that businesses are taking advantage of Britain’s general comfort with surveillance to pair their own cameras with live facial-recognition technology. Companies are also now using watch lists compiled by vendors that can help recognize flagged people who set foot on company property.</p></div>
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