SurveillanceHigh
Chinese Tech Firms Allegedly Developed Facial Recognition to Identify People by Race, Targeting Uyghur Muslims
- Occurred
- Jul 20, 2018
- Published
- Dec 17, 2020
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Various Chinese firms were revealed by patent applications to have developed facial recognition capable of detecting people by race, which critics feared would enable persecution and discrimination of Uyghur Muslims.
Developers
- Huawei
- Megvii
- SenseTime
- Alibaba
- Baibu
Deployers
- none
Harmed parties
- Uyghur people
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Facial recognition technology used for racial targeting and persecution constitutes mass surveillance and human rights violations.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8