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China bans compulsory facial recognition and its use in private spaces like hotel rooms
(www.theregister.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Given that the US government has recognized how unprotected technology (like unencrypted messaging) leaves its individual employees vulnerable to Chinese snoopers, I wonder if China is starting to realize just how vulnerable its pervasive unencrypted tech could leave it to US snooping.