Huawei shared data about Chinese and foreign users with the government of the PRC. Until 2020, presentations detailing tracking technologies were publicly available on the company’s website, according to The Washington Post.
According to leaked documents, Huawei assisted authorities in analyzing voice recordings by comparing them with a large database of \”voiceprints\”. It is believed that China used this tool for national security purposes, including to locate dissenters on issues related to Taiwan and Hong Kong, as well as ethnic relations.
Another slide shows a comprehensive system for prison surveillance. Apparently, it was used in prisons in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Shanxi Province, and the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
Another tracking technology mentioned in the documents locates the \”political figures\” via their electronic devices. According to the media, it is still used in Guangdong — China’s most populous province.
The document also contains information about Huawei’s use of surveillance technology in Xinjiang since 2017. The facial recognition system helped catch \”a number of suspects\” in crimes, according to the slides.
Journalists acknowledged that they could not confirm the authorship of the slides, but they were published on Huawei’s publicly accessible website and until recently anyone could access them.
According to a Huawei spokesperson, the company “knows nothing about the projects mentioned in the Washington Post report,” and it provides “cloud platform services that meet widely accepted industry standards.”
In November, it emerged that China used biometric identification technologies against ‘dangerous journalists’.
In May, a software engineer spoke about testing on Xinjiang residents of the emotion recognition system in police stations.
In July, the United States imposed sanctions on Chinese AI companies for violating Uyghur rights.
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