.@Huawei and @Megvii worked together to test and validate 'Uyghur alarms' in facial recognition software, per a document found by @ipvideo
here is @ipvideo's full article on the document which describes Uyghur alarms as a 'basic function' ipvm.com/reports/huawei… 
and here is @drewharwell & @evadou's report for @washingtonpost on this washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
this software is typically used to alert police in China if any Uyghur faces are detected by their vast security camera networks.
China's three largest video surveillance makers have been caught using it
ipvm.com/reports/hikvis…
ipvm.com/reports/dahua-…
ipvm.com/reports/univie…
China's three largest video surveillance makers have been caught using it
ipvm.com/reports/hikvis…
ipvm.com/reports/dahua-…
ipvm.com/reports/univie…
and @paulmozur of @nytimes was the first to identify this tech and its widespread use in China, including by Megvii, in April 2019 nytimes.com/2019/04/14/tec…
the Huawei/Megvii test including 'Uyghur alarms' was run on @nvidia Tesla P4 GPUs & Huawei directly praised their performance.
unclear if @nvidia knew of this use case. the test happened abt 3 yrs ago when @nvidia was touting Tesla GPUs for China smart cities, incl. Huawei.
unclear if @nvidia knew of this use case. the test happened abt 3 yrs ago when @nvidia was touting Tesla GPUs for China smart cities, incl. Huawei.
in this Sep 2017 @nvidia blog post the firm has since deleted, it wrote "Huawei’s video content management (VCM) product is equipped with Tesla P4 GPU accelerators, improving overall performance by 22x"
web.archive.org/web/2019052306…
even quoted praise from a Shenzhen police captain
web.archive.org/web/2019052306…
even quoted praise from a Shenzhen police captain
a interesting note: Megvii announced an "AI Ethics Committee" in its 2019 prospectus that included Emmanuel Lagarrigue, a Schneider exec. But Lagarrigue was "never part of it", he said.
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