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China bans compulsory facial recognition and its use in private spaces like hotel rooms

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Feed Name: The Register (Security)

Threat Score
75/100

Date Published: 2025-03-23

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Simon Sharwood

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This news roundup covers multiple Asia-focused items: China’s new rules restricting facial recognition without consent and requiring impact assessments; Zoho winning India’s government-backed browser challenge; Cisco Talos’ report about UAT-5918 (a Volt Typhoon–adjacent group) targeting Taiwanese critical infrastructure using web shells and exploiting an unpatched vulnerability to establish persistent access for information theft; legal and policy developments in India and Japan; and claims of Chinese harassment against an Australian think tank.

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