Incident 107: Chinese Tech Firms Allegedly Developed Facial Recognition to Identify People by Race, Targeting Uyghur Muslims

Description: Various Chinese firms were revealed by patent applications to have developed facial recognition capable of detecting people by race, which critics feared would enable persecution and discrimination of Uyghur Muslims.

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Alleged: Huawei , Megvii , SenseTime , Alibaba and Baibu developed an AI system deployed by none, which harmed Uyghur people.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
107
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2018-07-20
Editors
Sean McGregor, Khoa Lam

Variants

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