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Rural areas of China’s eastern coastal Shandong Province have installed hundreds of thousands of surveillance cameras since 2013 ...

The birds and the bees is a story parents tell their children to deflect the question "Where do babies come from?" The phrase refers to the talk about sex.

Winter often brings moments of delight when clean drifts of snow become the canvas for nature’s artwork. If not lost in the tunnel of my thoughts, I might notice the

News Analysis Since the pandemic, Chinese media often contributed its much questionable pandemic containment “success” to grid management, which ...

I. home When Anar Sabit was in her twenties and living in Vancouver, she liked to tell her friends that people could control their own destinies. Her experience, she was sure, was proof enough. She had come to Canada in 2014, a bright, confident immigrant from Kuytun, a small city west of the Gobi Desert, in a part of China that is tucked between Kazakhstan, Siberia, and Mongolia. “Kuytun” means “cold” in Mongolian; legend has it that Genghis Khan’s men, stationed there one frigid win...

Updated: 15 Mar 2021, 15:27 BIG Brother-like mass state surveillance is being developed by China with streets full of cameras that can monitor citizens emotions and track their "social credit" scores. The high tech systems will also help people snoop and rat on each other from the comfort of their homes — or on the go with their smartphones. 7 China is rigging up a system using state-of-the art technology to control its citizens The Communist regimes nightmare-inducing plans involve install...

One of China’s largest and most pervasive surveillance networks got its start in a small county about seven hours north of Shanghai. In 2013, the local government in Pingyi County began installing tens of thousands of security cameras across urban and rural areas — more than 28,500 in total by 2016. Even the smallest villages had at least six security cameras installed, according to state media. Those cameras weren’t just monitored by police and automated facial recognition algor...

One of China’s largest and most pervasive surveillance networks got its start in a small county about seven hours north of Shanghai. In 2013, the local government in Pingyi County began installing tens of thousands of security cameras across urban and rural areas — more than 28,500 in total by 2016. Even the smallest villages had at least six security cameras installed, according to state media. Those cameras weren’t just monitored by police and automated facial recognition algorithms. ...

Researchers Voice Rights Concerns Over Emotion Recognition Technology Posted by Joseph Brouwer | Mar 3, 2021 Emotion recognition technology is being marketed globally as the next frontier of facial recognition, with proponents claiming it particularly well-suited for two starkly different environments: schools and prisons. In the Chinese context, companies have explicitly attached themselves to nationwide surveillance schemes such as the Sharp Eyes program, which aims to conduct real-time surve...

Tracking the Digital Component of the BRI in Central Asia, Part One: Exporting “Safe Cities” to Uzbekistan Publication: China Brief Volume: 21 Issue: 3 February 11, 2021 06:14 PM Age: 1 month Image: A 2018 demonstration of Huawei’s “City Brain” urban big data management platform during the Fourth China Smart City International Expo in Shenzhen, Guangdong (Image source: China News Service).   Introduction Following the 2013 announcement of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) at a spee...