Chinese tech companies have ramped up efforts to set technical standards for facial recognition, raising concerns among business competitors, political observers and humanitarian advocates.
Why it matters: China has long made a systematic effort to set international standards on data and hardware compatibility across brands so that the standards reflect how Chinese products already work — giving its domestic industries a leg up in engineering races.
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Kara Frederick
Former Fellow, Technology and National Security Program
Kara Frederick is a former Fellow with the Technology and National Security Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS)....
