{"id":2281,"date":"2021-01-13T18:15:33","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T18:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/?p=1334008"},"modified":"2021-01-13T18:15:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T18:15:33","slug":"surveillance-group-exposes-disturbing-huawei-patent-for-ai-powered-uighur-detection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=2281","title":{"rendered":"Surveillance group exposes disturbing Huawei patent for AI-powered Uighur detection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A Huawei patent that mentions AI-powered identification of Uighur people and other ethnic groups has been discovered.<\/p>\n

The patent was exposed by video surveillance research group IPVM<\/a>, the same organization that had previously spotted references to an AI \u201cUighur alarm\u201d on Huawei\u2018s website, as well as evidence that Alibaba had offered \u201cUighur-detection-as-a-service<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

IPVM also recently found 12 government projects<\/a> from the last few years that mandate Uighur analytics across the country. These show that the persecution of the Muslim minority group spreads way beyond the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region in north-western China.<\/span><\/p>\n

Satellite images<\/a>, leaked documents<\/a>, and personal accounts<\/a> of former detainees of \u201cre-education\u201d camps depict a range of systematic human rights violations in the country that are being turbocharged by tech.<\/span><\/p>\n

[Read: How Netflix shapes mainstream culture, explained by data<\/span><\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n

IVPM\u2019s latest report adds further evidence of the prevalence of one of the most egregious examples: \u201cethnicity detection\u201d software.<\/p>\n

The group revealed that Huawei, facial recognition firm Megvii, and several other Chinese tech firms have filed patents \u201cfor various devices and systems that include Uighur and ethnic minority detection.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Huawei\u2019s \u2018target object\u2019 patent<\/h2>\n

The Huawei patent describes AI techniques for identifying pedestrians by attributes including \u201crace (Han [China\u2019s biggest ethnic group], Uighur).\u201d<\/p>\n

It was originally filed in July 2018 by Huawei and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).<\/p>\n