Before this week, Alibaba’s website had said that tools for detecting the faces of Uighurs and other minorities were part of its “content security” service. “As government regulation gets stricter by the day, these are tasks that all websites and platforms must urgently handle and manage seriously,” Alibaba’s website explains. The content security service can perform “facial recognition of sensitive people” using still pictures and videos, according to Alibaba’s website. Another Chinese cloud provider, Kingsoft Cloud, had described on its website technology that could use an image of a face to predict “race,” among other attributes. ©2020 The New York Times Company

Source: bd News24 December 16, 2020 20:37 UTC