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Alibaba has some explaining to do: its "website for its cloud computing business showed how clients could use its software to detect the faces of Uighurs and other ethnic minorities within images and videos"--as Beijing was tracking and persecuting them. https://t.co/kxyDV4hnlM pic.twitter.com/uDpvT7c5Tv
— Kenneth Roth (@KenRoth) December 17, 2020
As China tracked and persecuted members of predominantly Muslim minority groups, Alibaba showed its corporate customers how they could play a part.https://t.co/9a1oSE3en5
— CJ Werleman (@cjwerleman) December 17, 2020
“Users can simply send images of people, whether from phones or surveillance video, to the service, and if Alibaba suspects a Uighur, it will flag the person.” https://t.co/r1QzPxTwDl
— ines helene (@inihelene) December 17, 2020
'"... it can perform such tasks as "glasses inspection", "smile detection", whether the subject is "ethnic" and, specifically, "Is it Uighur".'https://t.co/Li1q7Us2ME
— Poppy McPherson (@poppymcp) December 17, 2020
Alibaba “has facial recognition technology which can specifically pick out members of China's Uighur minority, surveillance industry researcher IPVM said in a report” https://t.co/JLd7rCHUek
— Fabio Chiusi (@fabiochiusi) December 17, 2020
NEW: Alibaba offers "Uyghur recognition" as a Cloud service, allowing customers to be alerted any time Alibaba detects a Uyghur.
— Adrian Zenz (@adrianzenz) December 17, 2020
Investigation by IPVM and the @nytimes https://t.co/bhQ6aw1Zc0
Alibaba offers "Uyghur recognition" as a Cloud service, allowing customers to be alerted any time Alibaba detects a Uyghur. Just bonkers. Imagine the alternative headline: Amazon allows customers to be alerted every time Amazon detects an African American https://t.co/H1FmFj1vbh
— Drew Pavlou 柏乐志 (@DrewPavlou) December 17, 2020
here is @ipvideo's full report https://t.co/6x75SQ2Qts
— Charles Rollet (@CharlesRollet1) December 17, 2020
and here is Alibaba API guide showing Alibaba offering Uyghur detection https://t.co/GAjPh7JsFR
Alibaba deleted it after it was contacted for comment pic.twitter.com/OZjzjWsIkt
New revelation by @CharlesRollet1 and @nytimes: Alibaba revealed on the website of its cloud computing business that its software can detect the faces of #Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities groups within images and videos. https://t.co/0xWd4bDlkP
— William Yang (@WilliamYang120) December 17, 2020
Tommy Zwicky, vice president of communications at Huawei Denmark, confirmed to VICE World News on Wednesday that he “left because of how the Uighur case was handled.” https://t.co/61S2dd6ug8
— Henrik Moltke (@moltke) December 17, 2020
A Huawei exec has resigned over company's Uighur surveillancehttps://t.co/6euPGgspT4
— Jason Koebler (@jason_koebler) December 16, 2020
‘The feature [for detecting Uyghurs] was built into Alibaba software that helps web platforms monitor digital content for material related to terrorism, pornography and other red-flag categories’ https://t.co/if9LQj7Q5O
— Gady Epstein (@gadyepstein) December 17, 2020
Confirmed: The head of communications for Huawei in Denmark, Tommy Zwicky, has resigned over the Chinese company’s role in testing surveillance tools capable of tracking China’s Muslims https://t.co/y2EtnUoVXJ
— Alan Wong (@alanwongw) December 16, 2020
"After The Times asked Alibaba about the tool this week, the company edited its website to remove the references to Uighur and minority faces."@AlibabaGroup showed how clients could use its software to detect the faces of Uighurs within images & videos.https://t.co/7iFWJR109g
— Uyghur Human Rights Project (@UyghurProject) December 17, 2020
Boycott Alibaba (including their partners/subsidiaries) like Marriott, SCMP, Ant Financial, AliMusic, FIFA, etc.). https://t.co/C5NqfIv6HS
— Anders Corr, Ph.D. (@anderscorr) December 17, 2020
Deep inside a how-to website for its cloud computing customers, Alibaba told them how they could play a part in China's systematic tracking of its Uighur ethnic minority group. https://t.co/OIu1hAHT4a
— Carlos Tejada (@CRTejada) December 16, 2020
As Chinese govt tracks and targets Uighur Muslims, tech giant Alibaba's minority detection tool tells customers how they could too! https://t.co/mPRuaVqZLs
— rama lakshmi (@RamaNewDelhi) December 17, 2020
#Alibaba poses a risk to the privacy and security of #Uyghurs, while goods made from Uyghur #slavelabor are sold on #AliExpress. This company, @AlibabaGroup, is complicit in genocide and responsible companies shouldn’t do business with it.https://t.co/2KL9hRYAK8
— Salih Hudayar (@SalihHudayar) December 17, 2020
NYT article: Alibaba's Software Can Find Uighur Faces, It Told China Clients https://t.co/TDfmWMl6Mz
— Adrian Zenz (@adrianzenz) December 17, 2020
Alibaba has some explaining to do: its "website for its cloud computing business showed how clients could use its software to detect the faces of Uighurs and other ethnic minorities within images and videos"--as Beijing was tracking and persecuting them. https://t.co/kxyDV4hnlM pic.twitter.com/uDpvT7c5Tv
— Kenneth Roth (@KenRoth) December 17, 2020
Deep inside a how-to website for its cloud computing customers, Alibaba told them how they could play a part in China's systematic tracking of its Uighur ethnic minority group. https://t.co/OIu1hAHT4a
— Carlos Tejada (@CRTejada) December 16, 2020
NEW: Alibaba touted software on its cloud computing services website that it said could detect Uighur faces. w/ @ipvideo @CharlesRollet1 https://t.co/g01MO2AOQC
— Raymond Zhong (@zhonggg) December 17, 2020
Research by @ipvideo already showed @Huawei's involvement in the repression of Uyghurs.
— World Uyghur Congress (@UyghurCongress) December 17, 2020
New research shows that @AlibabaGroup openly offers #Uyghur recognition as a Cloud service, allowing customers to be alerted any time Alibaba detects a Uyghur.https://t.co/z2he70uew8
Alibaba Uyghur tracker shows how PRC state-capitalism elevates racism against non-Han Chinese to whole-of-society level. As bad as its existence, the fact that Alibaba promoted this feature until NYT called is more chilling! https://t.co/yugY9pYYvh
— Dr. James Millward 米華健 bakshi (@JimMillward) December 17, 2020
The discovery could thrust one of the world’s most valuable internet companies into the storm of international condemnation surrounding China’s treatment of its Muslim minorities https://t.co/Sz6bz9z7YT
— NYT Business (@nytimesbusiness) December 16, 2020
A chilling development. https://t.co/34WwULR1Ri
— Stephen Collins (@sdarcycollins) December 17, 2020
Tommy Zwicky, vice president of communications at Huawei Denmark, confirmed to VICE World News that he “left because of how the Uighur case was handled.” https://t.co/Abm1ooniON
— Rowaida Abdelaziz (@Rowaida_Abdel) December 17, 2020
Alibaba's Software Can Be Used For Ethnicity Identification. - The New York Times https://t.co/nhLwl3UdrK
— Michael Ron Bowling (@mrbcyber) December 17, 2020
알리바바는 고객들에게 위구르인들을 식별하기 위해 얼굴 인식을 제공했다고 보고서에 나타났습니다. https://t.co/UOZfWtexpG
— editoy (@editoy) December 18, 2020
The head of communications for #Huawei in Denmark has resigned over the Chinese company’s role in testing surveillance tools capable of tracking #Uyghur Muslims.https://t.co/ExThKtwiGL#Uyghurs #China #UyghurGenocide #UyghursLivesMatter
— DOAM (@doamuslims) December 18, 2020
"After The Times asked Alibaba about the tool this week, the company edited its website to remove the references to Uighur and minority faces."@AlibabaGroup showed how clients could use its software to detect the faces of Uyghurs within images & videos.https://t.co/7iFWJQJoKG
— Uyghur Human Rights Project (@UyghurProject) December 18, 2020
“Alibaba’s website for its cloud computing business showed how clients could use its software to detect the faces of Uighurs and other ethnic minorities within images and video” https://t.co/MwE3NxYmNq
— Frederic Jacobs (@FredericJacobs) December 18, 2020
As China Tracked Muslims, Alibaba Showed Customers How They Could, Too https://t.co/GuD4ZjbxD5
— Benedict Rogers 羅傑斯 (@benedictrogers) December 17, 2020
and read @zhonggg's report in @nytimes about this here https://t.co/hxgQxT6APY
— Charles Rollet (@CharlesRollet1) December 17, 2020
"After The Times asked Alibaba about the tool this week, the company edited its website to remove the references to Uighur and minority faces. 'The ethnicity mention refers to a feature/function that was used within a testing environment.'"@zhonggghttps://t.co/q7krritsrR
— Jonathan Cheng (@JChengWSJ) December 17, 2020
As China Tracked Muslims, Alibaba Showed Customers How They Could, Too https://t.co/qmVea0A9NG might be awkward for the NBA given the baba executive chairman owns the brooklyn nets?
— Bill Bishop (@niubi) December 16, 2020
"After The Times asked Alibaba about the tool this week, the company edited its website to remove the references to Uighur and minority faces."
— Linette Lopez (@lopezlinette) December 17, 2020
I can't believe this company trades on the NYSE. https://t.co/OVlX7PQES5
A social media platform, for instance, could automatically flag videos for additional scrutiny, or even alert the authorities, if they contain faces that the software predicts are #Uighur. https://t.co/YqIRxej04J
— Mobashra (@mobbiemobes) December 17, 2020
Alibaba offered clients facial recognition to identify Uighur people, report reveals: Software could be used to identify videos filmed and uploaded by Uighur person, says IPVMhttps://t.co/lGBrO2qmVJ
— Geoff Wade (@geoff_p_wade) December 18, 2020
“The US-based surveillance industry research firm IPVM said on Thursday it had found the detection technology in Alibaba’s Cloud Shield service, which offers content moderation for websites.” https://t.co/evbyQhFO4v
— Neetu Garcha (@NeetuGarcha) December 17, 2020
we’re not exactly saints, but the appetite for cruelty in the Chinese system is astonishing https://t.co/XHxPYmTGde
— curtmills (@CurtMills) December 17, 2020