In late 2019, China began requiring all citizens to submit to facial recognition in order to apply for new internet or mobile services, and began requiring that telecom companies deploy AI to check the identities of people registering SIM cards. Source
Verdict The same trend is listed again within the publisher's next two editions (D33 ). Continued as ftsg-tech-trends-2023-360
A trend is graded on whether the publisher keeps it, never as a hit or a miss (D6 , D33 ).
All captured fields
rank 61
section Artificial Intelligence
subsection Geopolitics and Military Trends / China Spotlight
subject Strategic panopticon
horizon Act Now
page 77
confidence high
note horizon is the label the page header highlights (Watch Closely / Informs Strategy / Act Now); it applies to the page the trend starts on. Permalink
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Hindsight, claim ftsg-tech-trends-2022-061, persisted as of 2026-10-04. Envisioning. https://www.envisioning.com/hindsight/claims/ftsg-tech-trends-2022-061
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