Huawei and top Chinese AI startup accused of building 'Uyghur alarm' facial recognition scanner for govt

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In brief Huawei, already sanctioned by the US for helping the Chinese government crack down on Uyghur muslims, built facial recognition software to surveil the ethnic group and alert authorities whenever a positive match was detected, it's claimed....