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Posted on 04/15/2019 5:32:09 AM PDT by C19fan
The Chinese government has drawn wide international condemnation for its harsh crackdown on ethnic Muslims in its western region, including holding as many as a million of them in detention camps.
Now, documents and interviews show that the authorities are also using a vast, secret system of advanced facial recognition technology to track and control the Uighurs, a largely Muslim minority. It is the first known example of a government intentionally using artificial intelligence for racial profiling, experts said.
The facial recognition technology, which is integrated into China’s rapidly expanding networks of surveillance cameras, looks exclusively for Uighurs based on their appearance and keeps records of their comings and goings for search and review. The practice makes China a pioneer in applying next-generation technology to watch its people, potentially ushering in a new era of automated racism.
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The Chinese government has drawn wide international condemnation for its harsh crackdown on ethnic Muslims …Really, Slimes? Are the Chinese suddenly “ethnic communists” as well?
No it is all about totalitarian control.
Could just as easily happen to anyone not just Uighurs. Like any foreigner that enters China.
But to the NYT it's always racism, when it's not Russia.
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The crackdown is being done by socialist “people of color”, and not by evil white capitalists. Consequently, it is of no interest to the Left or even a majority of Muslims, who probably consider the Uighurs to be the wrong kind of Muslims anyway, and therefore subject to extermination.
As for the Islamic ethnic Chinese, a little quiet “street justice” by their non-Islamic neighbors, which would not be closely monitored by the official channels, would be the “management” of the potential problem.
Is being a muslim a race?
Yes. Excellent point.
The NY Times is both illiterate and ignorant.
Times and other big media rarely do articles about Chinese communist repression of Christians, Buddhists, pro-democracy groups etc...
A lot of coverage of repression of certain Muslims.
We do the same thing here. Pic on drivers license combined with license plate readers and traffic cameras. Phone calls, internet activity, all tied together.
I’m surprised the Chinese are only doing it to the highest. I guess they don’t have enough computer power to track everyone there.
Uighers not highest.
Racism? For the umpteenth time, Islam is NOT a race. And frankly, watching your Muslims is a GOOD idea. I've long (since about 9/12/2001) advocated deporting all non-citizen Muslims and keeping surveillance on all citizen Muslims.
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