Techno-Politics: Focus on China’s facial recognition technologies | The Indian Express

Techno-Politics: Focus on China’s facial recognition technologies | The Indian Express

Written by C. Raja Mohan |New Delhi |Updated: October 9, 2019 3:49:51 pm

C. Raja Mohan is Director, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore, and contributing editor on foreign affairs for 'The Indian Express'.

Techno-Politics: Focus on China’s facial recognition technologies

Over the last couple of years, technology issues have emerged at the front and centre of the deepening Sino-US trade tensions.

The eight companies in the list include HikVision and Dahua that manufacture surveillance cameras as well as Yitu, Megvi and SenseTime that work on facial recognition (Source: Reuters/Representational image)

The new round of US sanctions against China unveiled this week have turned a harsh light on surveillance technologies including facial recognition that gained much traction in recent years.