Internal Documents Show Huawei Is Staying On The Cutting Edge Of Oppression Tech

Internal Documents Show Huawei Is Staying On The Cutting Edge Of Oppression Tech

2 years ago
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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20211218/14003948143/internal-documents-show-huawei-is-staying-cutting-edge-oppression-tech.shtml

Pretty much exactly a year ago, the Washington Post obtained documents that showed Chinese tech giant Huawei was working with the government to create facial recognition on steroids: a system capable of not just recognizing faces, but also certain ethnicities.

There's only one reason for developing ethnicity recognition in China. The government's war on its Muslim Uighur population continues with no sign of letting up. Huawei's tech would enable the government to identify and track its most undesirable citizens, most likely to find any reason at all to disappear them into the country's many prisons and reeducation camps.