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Another Chinese CCTV-maker has been caught advertising cameras that identify “race” and “skin color.”
This time it’s a company called Dahua. A few years ago it was Hikvision. Dahua says the features were not “developed for commercial use,” but it’s suspected the Chinese government uses the tech to help suppress the country’s Uyghur minority. You can read more on that in this New York Times investigation from 2019.
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