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Uyghur people

Incidents Harmed By

Incident 1072 Report
Chinese Tech Firms Allegedly Developed Facial Recognition to Identify People by Race, Targeting Uyghur Muslims

2018-07-20

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 2492 Report
Government Deployed Extreme Surveillance Technologies to Monitor and Target Muslim Minorities in Xinjiang

2016-10-01

A suite of AI-powered digital surveillance systems involving facial recognition and analysis of biometric data were deployed by the Chinese government in Xinjiang to monitor and discriminate local Uyghur and other Turkic Muslims.

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Related Entities
Other entities that are related to the same incident. For example, if the developer of an incident is this entity but the deployer is another entity, they are marked as related entities.
 

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Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 107
    2 Reports

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

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Huawei

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 107
    2 Reports

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

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Entity

Megvii

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 107
    2 Reports

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

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SenseTime

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 107
    2 Reports

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

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Entity

Alibaba

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 107
    2 Reports

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

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Baibu

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 107
    2 Reports

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

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Chinese government

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 249
    2 Reports

    Government Deployed Extreme Surveillance Technologies to Monitor and Target Muslim Minorities in Xinjiang

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Turkic Muslim ethnic groups

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 249
    2 Reports

    Government Deployed Extreme Surveillance Technologies to Monitor and Target Muslim Minorities in Xinjiang

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