The Sky Net programme, now renamed Pingan Chengshi, or Safe Cities, claimed to have connected 170 million cameras across China last year. By 2020, another 400 million units will be installed.
…The trade war will lead to a tech war which is a data war which leads to competing forms of artificial intelligence.
Source: Medium
More data. More funding. Bigger datasets. China is winning the facial recognition game. Allegedly the NYPD are using Chinese systems for this.
While physical products from China like 5G can be blacklisted by the US, it is very hard to keep software out. And software is perhaps easier to use for espionage than hardware.
This particular product could lead to new US regulations regarding the source of software, or perhaps the ability of software to reach non-USA servers.