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University of Maryland (UMD) professor Dinesh Manocha, a decorated scholar in AI and robotics, created machine-learning software "useful for surveillance" that can read people's personalities and "predict their behavior" for Chinese tech giant Alibaba.

University of Maryland (UMD) professor Dinesh Manocha, a decorated scholar in AI and robotics, created machine-learning software "useful for surveillance" that can read people's personalities and "predict their behavior" for Chinese tech giant Alibaba.

SHANGHAI: Technology giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has facial recognition technology which can specifically pick out members of China’s Uighur minority, surveillance industry researcher IPVM said in a report. Alibaba itself said it was “dismayed” a unit developed software which can tag ethnicity in videos, and that the feature was never intended to be deployed to customers. The report comes as human rights groups accuse China of forcing over 1 million Muslim Uighurs into labor camps in...

BBC News Published image captionCotton production in Xinjiang Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has said it will not allow its technology to be used for targeting or identifying specific ethnic groups. The statement follows reports that the company’s content moderation technology can pick out Uighur minorities. Alibaba said it was “dismayed that Alibaba Cloud developed facial technology that includes ethnicity as an attribute for tagging video imagery. "We have eliminated any ethnic tag in...

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Alibaba Facial Recognition Tech Picks Out Uyghur Minorities Chinese multinational technology company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is offering Uyghur/ethnic minority recognition as a cloud service, according to a new report by surveillance industry researcher IPVM and  Users simply send photographs of people taken on their phones or pulled from surveillance videos to Alibabas facial recognition service, then receive an alert if the subject is identified as a m...

Alibaba unit develops facial recognition tech to identify Uighur people Report comes as human rights groups accuse China of forcing over 1 million Muslim Uighurs into labour camps Reuters December 18, 2020 SHANGHAI: Technology giant Alibaba Group has facial recognition technology that can specifically pick out members of China’s Uighur minority, surveillance industry researcher IPVM said in a report. Alibaba itself said it was “dismayed” a unit developed software which can tag ethnicity ...

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Chinese tech giant developed facial recognition AI that tracks persecuted Uyghurs Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group Holdings reportedly offered facial recognition software that able to identify ethnicities, and the company has since denied it was being investigated The firm has since apologised (Image: REUTERS) The Daily Stars FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up today! When you...