{"id":84070,"date":"2018-10-25T19:42:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T02:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/china-facial-recognition-and-state-control-the-economist"},"modified":"2018-10-25T19:42:51","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T02:42:51","slug":"china-facial-recognition-and-state-control-the-economist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/china-facial-recognition-and-state-control-the-economist","title":{"rendered":"China: facial recognition and state control | The Economist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lH2gMNrUuEY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Whether it\u2019s left there or right here\u2026 the tactics and destination look pretty much the same to me\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>China is the world leader in facial recognition technology. Discover how the country is using it to develop a vast hyper-surveillance system able to monitor and target its ethnic minorities, including the Muslim Uighur population.<\/p>\n<p>Click here to subscribe to The Economist on YouTube: <a href=\"https:\/\/econ.st\/2xvTKdy&event=video_description\" class=\"\" data-target-new-window=\"True\" data-sessionlink=\"itct=CDEQ6TgYACITCISZx9SKo94CFdqsxAod2vQD3EjG8NLWjYbovpQB\" data-url=\"https:\/\/econ.st\/2xvTKdy&event=video_description\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/econ.st\/2xvTKdy\">https:\/\/econ.st\/2xvTKdy<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Improving lives, increasing connectivity across the world, that\u2019s the great promise offered by data-driven technology \u2014 but in China it also promises greater state control and abuse of power.<\/p>\n<p>This is the next groundbreaking development in data-driven technology, facial recognition. And in China you can already withdraw cash, check in at airports, and pay for goods using just your face. The country is the world\u2019s leader in the use of this emerging technology, and China\u2019s many artificial intelligence startups are determined to keep it that way in the future.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/china-facial-recognition-and-state-control-the-economist\">Continue reading \u201cChina: facial recognition and state control | The Economist\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether it\u2019s left there or right here\u2026 the tactics and destination look pretty much the same to me\u2026 China is the world leader in facial recognition technology. Discover how the country is using it to develop a vast hyper-surveillance system able to monitor and target its ethnic minorities, including the Muslim Uighur population. Click here [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,1412,6,1492,1511,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-privacy","category-robotics-ai","category-security","category-surveillance","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}