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Uganda Deployed Huawei's Facial Recognition to Monitor Political Opposition and Protests
Huawei's AI systems involving facial recognition were reportedly deployed by the Ugandan government to monitor political opposition actors and anti-regime sentiments, which raised fears of surveillance and suppression of individual freedoms.
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- incident-report
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- reported
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- Global
Reported occurrence date: 2019-11-29T00:00:00.000Z
Evidence & attribution
- AI Incident Database
- AI Incident Database · 2020-01-18T00:00:00.000Z
AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
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