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Alibaba says Uygur-tracking facial recognition violates company values
- jtdev 6y agoSo... the CCP owns this technology. They're definitely going to be using this, and we all know they'll use it to oppress this ethnic group. How does the international community not see the parallels to the third reich here?
- DataWorker 6y agoTDS.
- jtdev 6y agoCCPDS.
- redis_mlc 6y agoThe US and EU are in the middle of passing various laws and sanctions. One day the switch will just flip and this will become a crisis for the CCP. (FYI: the camps are funded by organ harvesting and slave labor, and the goal is genocide.)
- djohnston 6y agoI don't think the 3rd reich and the ruins of Weimar Republic were was as economically appetizing.
- thatguy0900 6y agoChina isn't invading other countries in search of more uygurs to kill, so everyone is content to ignore it
- eloff 6y agoTo be fair, neither was that the motivation of Germany.
- zwaps 6y agoIt's amazing how we were worried whether big modern companies would show any real resistance towards states engaging in cultural suppression, racism, censorship and genocide. In fact, they jump at the opportunity to help with it!
- yumraj 6y agoThe title says the company removed software, while the article says that they "removed references to Uygurs" That looks like they just edited the documentation, the software is still there with all its capabilities.
- echan00 6y agoIt doesn’t matter what Alibabas values are. Their values are filtered by the CCPs needs.