{"id":33820,"date":"2021-07-31T19:14:23","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T00:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=33820"},"modified":"2021-07-31T19:14:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T00:14:23","slug":"another-bit-in-the-mouth-of-the-chinese-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/07\/31\/another-bit-in-the-mouth-of-the-chinese-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Bit In The Mouth Of The Chinese, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

In January of 2018 I noted reports<\/a> of China implementing a facial recognition system as a surveillance system in support of social credit. Now, it’s changing a bit:<\/p>\n

Now, China is putting its freewheeling facial recognition industry on notice. Citing Guo\u2019s case, China\u2019s top court announced this week that consumers\u2019 privacy must be protected from unwarranted face tracking.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe public is increasingly worried about the abuse of facial recognition technology,\u201d Yang Wanming, vice president of the Supreme People\u2019s Court, said in a news conference on Wednesday. \u201cThe calls for strengthening protection of facial information are increasing.\u201d [WaPo<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The trick here is to realize this is a change to the how, not the what:<\/p>\n

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Marshall Meyer, an emeritus professor of management at the University of Pennsylvania who specializes in China policy, said the new restrictions don\u2019t mean China\u2019s residents will no longer be surveilled, only that the use of the technology will be more centralized.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is the government, and only the government, that has the right to collect and collate unlimited facial recognition data,\u201d he said. \u201cFor consumers, then, there is a little more privacy. But not a lot more.\u201d<\/p>\n

Xi has shifted to a \u201cpolitics in command\u201d approach that accepts some hits to economic growth in exchange for a stronger grip on tech companies, Dexter Roberts, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council\u2019s Asia Security Initiative, wrote in\u00a0a report<\/a> published Thursday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As often happens, there are pluses and minuses that were not, perhaps, considered by the planners grasping after the apple, in this case the top levels of the Chinese Communist Party. And when you’re the head of a political party that puts political power above all else, sometimes that’s your calculus: how will they use this technical advantage to disthrone us?<\/p>\n

The difference between seeing political power as a duty to be properly discharged vs it being used to further one’s advantage can make for interesting gymnastics in political life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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