China’s new national drive to embrace artificial intelligence is also giving the authorities new ways to monitor and control its citizens.

In some jurisdictions, WeChat has even become a frontline policing tool. In Guangzhou city, for example, railway police built a WeChat-based alarm system allowing citizens to send incident details ...

Police authorities from South Korea and China have announced their commitment to jointly respond to online fraud crimes such as voice phishing. As fraud crimes, including voice phishing and romance ...

China has built an ambitious artificial intelligence sector in recent years. BEIJING -- Fixed facial recognition cameras have been in use to fight public toilet paper theft and to catch beer ...