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SOURCE-LINKED INTELLIGENCE
Government Deployed Extreme Surveillance Technologies to Monitor and Target Muslim Minorities in Xinjiang
A suite of AI-powered digital surveillance systems involving facial recognition and analysis of biometric data were deployed by the Chinese government in Xinjiang to monitor and discriminate local Uyghur and other Turkic Muslims.
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- incident-report
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- reported
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- Global
Reported occurrence date: 2016-10-01T00:00:00.000Z
Evidence & attribution
- AI Incident Database
- AI Incident Database · 2019-05-01T00:00:00.000Z
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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