Alibaba admits it built facial-recognition-as-a-service to detect oppressed Uyghur minority in China
Repudiates the work, says it was never used by a customer. Which is just what Huawei said
Alibaba Group today admitted its cloud business developed what it is described as a facial recognition technology ... that included ethnicity as an algorithm attribute for tagging video imagery," then vowed it will never again see the light of day....