Mass surveillance fears as India readies facial recognition system
As India prepares to install a nationwide facial recognition system in an effort to catch criminals and find missing children, human rights and technology experts warn of the risks to privacy from increased surveillance. Use of the camera technology is an effort in "modernizing the ...
Russia's web-censoring and -snooping tool sets pace for imitators, study says
Russia is successfully imposing a highly effective internet censorship regime across thousands of privately owned providers and also aims to make government snooping pervasive, according to a study released Wednesday. The University of Michigan study says the Russian model can be easily exported to other ...
U.S. bars Chinese officials over crackdown on Xinjiang Uighurs and other Muslim minorities
The Trump administration Tuesday slapped travel bans on Chinese officials involved in a massive crackdown on Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in its west. The State Department said it would not issue visas to Chinese government and Communist Party officials believed to be responsible for ...
Hong Kong tensions come to U.S. college campuses; some students abroad fear Beijing surveillance
As political tensions flare back home, Hong Kong students on U.S. college campuses say they have been ostracized and in some cases threatened by fellow students from mainland China, and they suspect they are being watched from afar by Beijing. Some say they see the ...
30 years after Berlin Wall's fall, Stasi archive move sparks outrage
Almost 30 years after the Berlin Wall fell, Germany's parliament voted Thursday to transfer the vast secret police files of the former East German communist regime into the Federal Archives — despite concerns voiced by some historians and ex-dissidents. One of those opposed to the ...
Chinese hackers who pursued Uighurs also targeted Tibetans, researchers says
Sophisticated Chinese hackers who used a previously unknown iPhone security flaw to target ethnic minority Uighurs also went after Tibetans in exile, according to a report published on Tuesday. It was the first detected use of malicious software against exiled Tibetans that required only a ...
Edward Snowden tells life story and why he leaked NSA secrets in new memoir
Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden has written a memoir, telling his life story in detail for the first time and explaining why he chose to risk his freedom to become perhaps the most famous whistleblower of all time. Snowden, who now lives in ...
Confusion clouds China's social credit system
From penalizing irresponsible dog owners to blacklisting dissenters, critics warn China's social credit system enables authorities to define "desirable and undesirable behavior" and could allow unprecedented control of citizen's lives. The fledgling initiative has sparked fears the authoritarian state is tightening its grip on an ...
China's most advanced Big Brother experiment is a bureaucratic mess
The city of Suzhou, known as "the Venice of the East" for its web of intricate waterways, captured the imagination of Marco Polo when he journeyed through China more than seven centuries ago. Today it's drawing attention for another grand project: a sprawling network of ...
Huawei tells U.K. Parliament it is not bound by Chinese spy laws
Huawei's cybersecurity chief told the U.K. Parliament Monday that the Chinese telecom giant has been advised it was under no obligation to spy for Beijing if so asked by the communist state. John Suffolk told a committee hearing that Huawei has sought guidance from its ...
Huawei to sell off undersea cable business to Chinese firm after U.S. reportedly cited security risk
In its first major asset sale since the United States ratcheted up accusations of the Chinese firm being a vehicle for espionage, a Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. buyer's filing showed Monday it plans to sell its undersea telecom cable business. Hengtong Optic-Electric Co. Ltd, an ...
U.S. weighs blacklisting five Chinese video surveillance firms over treatment of Uighurs
The U.S. is considering cutting off the flow of vital American technology to five Chinese companies including Megvii, widening a dragnet beyond Huawei to include world leaders in video surveillance as it seeks to challenge China's treatment of minority Uighurs in the country's northwest. The ...
