Huawei and top Chinese AI startup accused of building Uyghur alarm facial recognition scanner for govt
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Katyanna Quach Sat 12 Dec 2020 // 11:02 UTC Share
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In brief Huawei, already sanctioned by the US for helping the Chinese government crack down on Uyghur muslims, built facial recognition software to surveil the ethnic group and alert authorities whenever a positive match was detected, it s claimed.
The company collaborated with AI startup Megvii to test a camera system that predicts people’s age, sex, and ethnicity based on their face. One of the functions the software was capable of performing was labelled as “Uyghur alarm”, according to documents (which you can see here) shared with the Washington Post.