Category: China

Dodgy Toonies from Quanzhou: How CBSA says it nabbed man with 26,630 fake $2 coins from China | Global News

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When the package from far away China landed at a FedEx warehouse at the sprawling Montreal-Mirabel International Airport in early January, Canada Border Services Agency officer Caroline Landry took a quick but careful look at the shipping label. The customs paperwork accompanying the package declared it contained 10,000 “metal badges” from a clothing company in Quanzhou, the CBSA says. Read full story here: Dodgy Toonies from Quanzhou: How CBSA says it nabbed man with 26,630 fake $2 coins from China | Global Newshttps://globalnews.ca/news/10082240/counterfeit-toonies-coins-china-quebecer-arrested/

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Chinese School Uses Facial Recognition To Make Kids Pay Attention | Engadget

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Civilian surveillance in China has seen a boom in recent times, with facial recognition leading the charge in the technologies used to keep tabs on the population. Police are scanning travelers with facial recognition glasses, authorities are using the tech to monitor ethnic minorities — now the Orwellian technology has a new target: kids. According to government-run Chinese website Hangzhou.com, a school has installed facial recognition technology to monitor how attentive students are in class. Three cameras have been installed above a blackboard at Hangzhou Number 11 High School in…

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