China: facial recognition and state control, The Economist

China is the world leader in facial recognition technology. Discover how the country is using it to develop a vast hypersurveillance system able to monitor and target its ethnic minorities, including the Muslim Uighur population. Click here to subscribe to The Economist on YouTube: Improving lives, increasing connectivity across the world, that s the great promise offered by datadriven technology but in China it also promises greater state control and abuse of power. This is