new for @ipvideo: a law firm hired by Hikvision concluded it did not "knowingly or intentionally" abuse human rights in Xinjiang.

But evidence shows Hikvision knows exactly what it's doing, as it directly built & operates 5 huge Xinjiang police projects

ipvm.com/reports/arent-…
in a carefully-worded statement, Arent Fox said:

"we do not find that Hikvision entered into the five projects in Xinjiang with the intent to knowingly engage in human rights abuses or find that Hikvision knowingly or intentionally committed human rights abuses itself"
but the evidence is clear: Hikvision won five Xinjiang police projects worth hundreds of millions of dollars which include surveillance systems for mosques and 're-education' camps
a tender for one Xinjiang police project won by Hikvision noted the area is 97% Uyghur with a "strong religious atmosphere" requiring "prevention and control".

the project mandated 967 facial recognition cameras be installed at the entrance of 967 mosques - in just one county.
In this case Hikvision is not some third party supplier. Hikvision directly won contracts to design, build, finance, and operate these Xinjiang police surveillance projects for 11 to 21 years
because of these police projects, the Norwegian government's @CouncilOnEthics - which advises the country's trillion-dollar Oil Fund - determined Hikvision's human rights are "ongoing" and recommended divestment
fwiw, IPVM has asked Hikvision/Arent Fox repeatedly to release the full report of its Xinjiang investigation - however, it remains secret

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9 Apr
As part of doing business in China, Airbnb allows hosts to ban Uyghur guests. Not banning specific people - literally, *any Uyghur person* wired.co.uk/article/airbnb…

this is the same company recently touting its "allyship" of the AAPI community
imagine Airbnb banning black guests in 1950s Alabama or 1980s South Africa. they are doing the same thing now in China with little to no controversy.
here was airbnb's response to the Uyghur ban revelation: Airbnb is "required to comply with local laws and regulations" which effectively ban Uyghurs from booking hotel rooms in China
Read 8 tweets
9 Feb
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
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17 Dec 20
new: @AlibabaGroup openly offers Uyghur alerts as a service on @alibaba_cloud, allowing customers to be alerted any time Alibaba detects a Uyghur in video or images. via @ipvideo
here is @ipvideo's full report ipvm.com/reports/alibab…

and here is Alibaba API guide showing Alibaba offering Uyghur detection perma.cc/9ZUV-UD2F

Alibaba deleted it after it was contacted for comment
and read @zhonggg's report in @nytimes about this here nytimes.com/2020/12/16/tec…
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8 Dec 20
.@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…
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