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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Incident ID
107
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2018-07-20
Editors
Sean McGregor, Khoa Lam
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Chinese tech giants have drawn international criticism after research showed they have technologies that enable the authorities to profile Muslim Uyghurs.
The cloud computing unit of Alibaba, Alibaba Cloud, developed a facial recognition al…
A Huawei patent that mentions AI-powered identification of Uighur people and other ethnic groups has been discovered.
The patent was exposed by video surveillance research group IPVM, the same organization that had previously spotted refere…
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