Major camera company can sort people by race, alert police when it spots Uighurs

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Dahua, though among Chinese companies sanctioned by the U.S. government, has a growing presence in the country. There are 80 public contracts for Dahua equipment in California alone. jmbooyah reports:

in November by engineer Serge Bazanski thanks to code the company posted from its software development kit on the public code-hosting platform Github. Among the attributes the code could filter was “EM_NATION_TYPE_UYGUR=1.”At the time, Dahua said in a statement to thethat it “does not sell products that feature [an] ethnicity-focused recognition function.”

“As soon as I became aware of it, I was absolutely appalled by it and I issued an instruction to my senior management that we are going to be moving away from this vendor,” Lewkovitz said. According to purchase documents reviewed by The Times, Modesto City Schools paid $362,000 to buy and install 57 Dahua camera kits in buses in October. School district spokeswoman Becky Fortuna said the cameras were purchased using federal funds and were intended to enhance the district’s contact-tracing efforts on school buses.Fortuna said the district was not aware Dahua was on the entity list or that there were bans on using federal funding to purchase Dahua equipment.

 

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