Alibaba reportedly encroached on the human rights of China’s Muslim population by financially supporting U.S.-blacklisted artificial intelligence companies to track the ethnic minority.
The e-commerce giant and its affiliated companies currently control nearly 30 percent of Chinese technology company Megvii and 7 percent of SenseTime, ESPN reported on April 14, citing recent financial documents.
Known for their AI “dragons” in China, state-backed Megvii and SenseTime were blacklisted by the United States in 2019 for acting contrary to the country’s foreign policy interests and national security. The move came after their facial recognition technologies surfaced in connection with China’s surveillance network on people in China’s far west Xinjiang region, where over one million Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities were forced into barbed-wire camps for “re-education.”
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