The company said the suspensions were an accident. But the move showed starkly the global political ramifications of Silicon Valley slip-ups. Source: NYT > Business – Paul Mozur
How China Uses Technology to Segregate and Subdue Millions
China has turned the Xinjiang region in its far west into an incubator for automated authoritarianism that could spread across the country and beyond. Source: NYT > Business – Chris Buckley and Paul Mozur
One Month, 500,000 Face Scans: How China Is Using A.I. to Profile a Minority
In a major ethical leap for the tech world, Chinese start-ups have built algorithms that the government uses to track members of a largely Muslim minority group. Source: NYT > Business – PAUL MOZUR