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Tag: biometrics

Big data deployed against Hong Kong’s leaderless movement

by Pete Sabine June 22, 2019February 18, 2020

The battle last week over Hong Kong’s extradition law, fought between citizens and government, has proved to be remarkably different from the protests that were central to 2014’s Umbrella Movement. Hong Kong has formally been a part of China since 1997 and has been governed under the “one country, two systems” principle which was supposed […]

Gait analysis in trial runs in Beijing, Shanghai, Xinjiang

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Supreme Court knocks out private sector from India’s digital identity program

by Saikat Datta October 2, 2018February 18, 2020

India’s ambitious digital ID project faces new security nightmare

by Saikat Datta May 1, 2018February 18, 2020

Rohingya crisis highlights blockchain data issues

by Richard Cook April 13, 2018February 18, 2020

Aadhaar obstacle depriving widows of pensions in Uttar Pradesh

by Saurabh Sharma and Ved Prakash Tiwari March 22, 2018February 18, 2020

IMF calls for crypto crackdown by fighting ‘fire with fire’

by Asia Times staff March 14, 2018February 18, 2020

Uighur detainees test Malaysia’s diplomacy

by Nile Bowie February 28, 2018February 18, 2020

Aadhaar and India’s unique identity crisis

by Raja Murthy February 8, 2018

Fingerprint security falls foul of simple tricks

by Frank Chen January 17, 2018February 18, 2020

China collecting biodata from millions of Uyghurs in Xinjiang

by Asia Times staff December 14, 2017February 18, 2020

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