Uighur (Chinese Muslim) repression ‘turbocharged by technology,’ confidential documents show
(From The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists)
Additional details of China’s pervasive use of technology to target Uighurs were uncovered last week by surveillance research firm IPVM. The researchers found a confidential document by tech giant Huawei and artificial intelligence firm Megvii documenting the companies’ work on a facial recognition system that can monitor and track the minority.
Among the system’s many functions was one called “Uyghur alert,” which could identify a subject’s ethnicity and be used to flag a member of the minority group to authorities, according to IPVM.
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