China's Huawei backtracks after filing for patent to identify Uyghur faces

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Chinese technology company Huawei is backtracking on a patent application it filed for a facial recognition system intended to identify Uyghurs from other Chinese ethnicities.

IPVM political director Conor Healy said that Huawei needed to explain why the feature had been part of the patent application in the first place.

According to IPVM, Chinese tech startup Megvii submitted a patent application in June 2019 for a system which mentioned an "ethnicity classification" that would include "Han, Uyghur, non-Han, non-Uyghur and unknown." IPVM also found another Chinese tech startup, Sensetime, mentioned in a patent application in July 2019 that it could identify people by ethnicity, specifically singling out "Uyghur" as a possibility.

"It was neither designed nor intended in any way to discriminate, which is against our values," a spokesperson said in a statement. "We will update the patent at the next available opportunity."

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I do not trust this company or the Chinese government.

If you're wondering how the holocaust could ever happen...

And Canada is still waiting to decide if we want this company in our country wide 5G network. Outrageous

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