So I think if the technology is used in those contexts that's quite understandable I think the Xinjiang local government had the responsibility to really protect the Xinjiang people. the media outside China - a lot of those sort of charge, many are not accurate and not true, but one thing that we do have to recognize that in Xinjiang there was a separatist movement that generated a lot of terrorists. Lan Xue, who also denied the existence of Uyghur analytics but said that the use of technology against "terrorists" in Xinjiang is "quite understandable": The BBC also quoted the chair of China's " Expert Committee on AI Governance" Dr. This statement is false, with IPVM and others like The New York Times finding numerous original PRC government and surveillance company documents explicitly mandating facial recognition tech with " Uyghur alarms", " real-time Uyghur warnings", " Uyghur/Non-Uyghur" detection, etc. The London UK PRC Embassy told the BBC that "there is no so-called facial recognition technology featuring Uyghur analytics whatsoever": Hikvision said its mention of Uyghur detection was "uploaded online without appropriate review", denying its tech had any "minority recognition function".Ĭhina Government Falsely Claims No Uyghur Analytics Dahua claimed, without evidence, that it mentioned Uyghurs in the context of all the PRC's 56 officially recognized minorities. In response, Huawei told the BBC it "does not condone the use of technology to discriminate or oppress against members of any community".
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The BBC also brought up IPVM's article on Hikvision touting a Uyghur-detecting AI camera:Īlong with IPVM finding Uyghur-tracking code in Dahua's public SDK: IPVM's Conor Healy told the BBC the patent shows Huawei "worked directly with the Chinese government" as it was co-authored with the government-run China Academy of Sciences. IPVM finding a Huawei patent which included Uyghur detection was used as an example: Panorama said IPVM "uncovered new evidence" of high-tech Uyghur repression in the form of 'Uyghur alerts' which automatically detect Uyghur faces for PRC police. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. (The PRC is ranked as one of the worst countries for press freedom.)īBC Quotes IPVM's Hikvision, Dahua, Huawei Uyghur Alerts PRC state media said this showed the government's "zero tolerance for fake news". In response, this February the PRC government banned the BBC in mainland China and Hong Kong and a month later ejected its Beijing correspondent John Sudworth. rape and sexual abuse against Uyghurs, a look inside Xinjiang's 're-education camps', and Uyghur children being "systematically separated" from their parents the BBC's reporting on COVID in China was also considered especially sensitive. The BBC has authored several high-profile investigations into PRC government human rights abuses in Xinjiang, e.g. IPVM’s Government Director Conor Healy was interviewed for the documentary, joining Microsoft President Brad Smith and Human Rights Watch’s China Director Sophie Richardson, among others.īBC Banned In China After Xinjiang Reporting
The BBC Panorama episode covered how artificial intelligence is changing the modern world, dividing the US and China. IPVM Quoted Alongside Microsoft, Human Rights Watch Watch the 3-minute clip featuring IPVM including the BBC visiting IPVM's USA testing facility: The world's longest-running news television program, BBC Panorama, prominently featured research from IPVM in its investigation into AI including critical examinations of Dahua, Hikvision, and Huawei.