China: Cyberspace Watchdog to Restrict Facial Recognition Tech

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The Spin

Pro-China narrative

China is a world leader in monitoring technology and its vast network of CCTV cameras, if effectively enforced, is an invaluable tool to enhance public security. Nevertheless, the latest proposal shows that Beijing also takes privacy and bias concerns seriously, and is stepping up efforts to establish more defined boundaries for the technology's usage.

Anti-China narrative

China is certainly a world leader in the mass surveillance of its people, and these new guidelines are nothing but window dressing. The Chinese government helms a massive, invasive surveillance program that monitors every aspect of everyday life, with facial recognition restrictions doing little to curtail the surveillance regime in the country. These new measures are fooling nobody.

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