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Pro-democracy activist Agnes Chow Ting is arrested from her home in Hong Kong, Monday, Aug. 10, 2020. Police arrested prominent pro-democracy activist Agnes Chow Ting at her home, on charges of inciting secession under the national security law, according to tweets by fellow activist Nathan Law, who is currently in Britain. A post on Chow’s official Facebook page said police had arrived at her home and that her lawyers were rushing to the scene. (AP Photo/ Raby Chan/Initium Media via AP) HK104 HK104

August 25, 2020 at 12:03 pm

With hacks and cameras, Beijing’s electronic dragnet closes on Hong Kong

Hong Kong security forces are using harsher tactics to close a digital dragnet on activists, pro-democracy politicians and media leaders. The moves bear similarities to...

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In an undated photo from Raymond Zhong, a photo of the QR code in the Alipay Health Code app. A New York Times analysis of the software’s code found that the system does more than decide in real time whether someone poses a contagion risk. It also appears to share information with the police. (Raymond Zhong via The New York Times) — NO SALES; FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH NYT STORY CHINA VIRUS DATA FOR MARCH 1, 2020. ALL OTHER USE PROHIBITED. — XNYT159

March 1, 2020 at 5:42 pm

In coronavirus fight, China gives citizens a color code, with red flags

A new system uses software to dictate quarantines — and appears to send personal data to police, in a troubling precedent for automated social control.

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February 7, 2020 at 5:05 pm

Doctor’s death puts a face on China’s deepening coronavirus crisis

WUHAN, China — More than 700 people have died. Tens of thousands are infected. Millions are living under lockdown, and the government has sought to...

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In an undated image provided by BMC Bioinformatics, images from a study in 2013 on 3D human facial construction. China’s efforts to use DNA to create an image of a person’s face prompt worries among experts on ethics in science that the tool could be used to justify racial profiling against Uighurs, a Muslim ethnic group. (BMC Bioinformatics via The New York Times) — NO SALES; FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH NYT STORY CHINA MUSLIMS BY WEE AND MOZUR FOR DEC. 3, 2019. ALL OTHER USE PROHIBITED. — XNYT147 XNYT147

December 4, 2019 at 3:01 pm

China uses DNA to map faces with help from the West; the mass collection effort is raising questions about consent and use

Beijing’s pursuit of control over a Muslim ethnic group pushes the rules of science and raises questions about consent.

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FILE — Shoppers line up for identification checks outside the Kashgar Bazaar in the Xinjiang region of China, Oct. 21, 2018. China’s leaders are investing billions of dollars in high-tech surveillance, making Xinjiang an incubator for increasingly intrusive policing systems that could spread across the country and beyond. (Paul Mozur/The New York Times) XNYT96 XNYT96

May 22, 2019 at 1:12 pm

How China uses technology to segregate and subdue minorities

China is in effect hard-wiring Xinjiang for segregated surveillance, using an army of security personnel to compel ethnic minorities to submit to monitoring and data...

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April 14, 2019 at 11:09 am

One month, 500,000 face scans: How China is using AI to profile a minority VIEW

The Chinese government has drawn wide international condemnation for its harsh crackdown on ethnic Muslims in its western region, including holding as many as 1...

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January 23, 2019 at 7:56 pm

China appears to block Microsoft’s Bing, despite company’s own censorship

SHANGHAI — Under China’s president, Xi Jinping, the last vestiges of the global internet have slowly disappeared from an online world that had already shut...

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August 15, 2018 at 9:03 pm

As Chinese internet giant Tencent stumbles, Beijing gets the blame

Bureaucratic reshuffling at the top levels of China’s government made it difficult for the company to get the licensing required to make money on new...

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**EMBARGO: No electronic distribution, Web posting or street sales before Monday 3:00 a.m. ET July 16, 2018. No exceptions for any reasons. EMBARGO set by source.** In a photo provided by Dong Fangzhong, Paul Mozur, a New York Times reporter, tried on a pair of facial recognition glasses in a train station in Zhengzhou, China. Mozur tested some of the technology used in China’s surveillance practices. (Dong Fangzhong via The New York Times) — NO SALES; FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH CHINA SURVEILLANCE BY PAUL MOZUR FOR JULY 16, 2018. ALL OTHER USE PROHIBITED. —

July 19, 2018 at 7:21 pm

Looking through the eyes of China’s surveillance state

Surveillance cameras are everywhere in China. A reporter has a chance to try on a pair of facial recognition glasses and see the world through...

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Tourists wait in line for the Mao Mausoleum under a pole holding 11 surveillance cameras, in Beijing, April 18, 2018. Beijing is putting billions of dollars behind facial recognition and other technologies to track and control its citizens. (Gilles Sabrié/The New York Times)

July 11, 2018 at 7:26 pm

Inside China’s dystopian dreams: AI, shame and lots of cameras

With millions of cameras and billions of lines of code, China is building a high-tech authoritarian future. Beijing is embracing technologies like facial recognition and...

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