Thread by @CharlesRollet1

breaking from @ipvideo & @latimes: the world's second-largest security camera manufacturer (@DahuaHQ) provides Chinese police "real-time Uyghur warnings" & tracks "Uyghurs with hidden terrorist inclinations"

Dahua has a USA HQ in Irvine & reportedly sold Amazon $10m of cameras

for Dahua's flagship 'Smart Police' solution, Heart of City, "real-time Uyghur warnings" are included and security cameras are required to "support reporting Uyghur [face] attributes" to police

in another Dahua support document, Dahua lists numerous categories of people it tracks for PRC police, including "Uyghurs with hidden terrorist inclinations"

Uyghurs suspected of such "inclinations" are typically rounded up and sent to Xinjiang's brutal 're-education' camps

this goes beyond Uyghurs - a Dahua camera listed on Dahua's own China website says it supports "ethnic skin color" detection while Dahua's SDK lists "black", "white", "yellow" race recognition
web.archive.org/web/2021011217…

the above is happening within the PRC but now Dahua's race tracking is spreading all over the world.

its latest globally available client software, SmartPSS, offers 'race' detection as part of its face recognition analytics

see this @ipvideo clip on Dahua's race tracking, which alarmed one Australian security provider enough to drop the company for good ipvm.com/reports/dahua-…

read @latimes' investigation of IPVM's findings latimes.com/business/techn…

and IPVM's articles ipvm.com/reports/dahua-…
ipvm.com/reports/dahua-…

last year, Dahua told @SCMPNews it "does not sell products that feature [an] ethnicity-focused recognition function" after its code went viral for tracking Uyghurs ipvm.com/reports/dahua-…

this time, Dahua did not respond to multiple requests for comment from @latimes & @ipvideo