TOKYO -- Japan will consider partnering with the U.S. and Europe to restrict exports of advanced surveillance technology that enables authoritarian states to violate human rights on a wide scale, Nikkei has learned.
The U.S. has announced multilateral initiatives aimed at tightening controls on facial-recognition systems and similar equipment to prevent abuses by countries such as China and Russia. Tokyo has moved more slowly, in part because of its lack of a clear legal basis for sanctions.
