Trends in Security Information
The HSD Trendmonitor is designed to provide access to relevant content on various subjects in the safety and security domain, to identify relevant developments and to connect knowledge and organisations. The safety and security domain encompasses a vast number of subjects. Four relevant taxonomies (type of threat or opportunity, victim, source of threat and domain of application) have been constructed in order to visualize all of these subjects. The taxonomies and related category descriptions have been carefully composed according to other taxonomies, European and international standards and our own expertise.
In order to identify safety and security related trends, relevant reports and HSD news articles are continuously scanned, analysed and classified by hand according to the four taxonomies. This results in a wide array of observations, which we call ‘Trend Snippets’. Multiple Trend Snippets combined can provide insights into safety and security trends. The size of the circles shows the relative weight of the topic, the filters can be used to further select the most relevant content for you. If you have an addition, question or remark, drop us a line at info@securitydelta.nl.
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Use of facial recognition technology during the COVID-19 pandemic in China
In the wake of COVID-19, Chinese companies have begun releasing enhanced FRT that can “detect elevated temperatures in a crowd or flag citizens not wearing a face mask.”20 This facial recognition information is then fed to apps in order to alert users in the area of the personal health information of others to establish whether they have been within the proximity of infected patients. While there is no verifiable overview of the attitudes of the Chinese citizens when it comes to their general feelings of trust, individual citizens have expressed their concerns that the government is finding more reasons to surveil their citizens in public.21 Public acts in retaliation against FRT also demonstrates a lack of trust and even resent towards FRT by the government. In Hong Kong, protestors destroyed facial recognition towers in protest believing them host Chinese FRT.22