Facial recognition software developed by Dahua, a Chinese video surveillance firm sanctioned by the U.S., purports to detect the race of individuals caught on camera and offers to alert police clients when it identifies members of the Turkic ethnic group Uighurs.
Dahua is among the Chinese companies included on the Commerce Department‘s entity list “for its ties to “human rights violations and abuses in the implementation of China’s campaign of repression” against the Turkic ethnic group Uighurs. The U.S. doesn’t restrict American companies such as Amazon from buying from businesses on the entity list, though it urges caution. Companies on the entity list are barred from purchasing American products.
“If these allegations against Dahua are true, it would mean that Amazon willfully ignored guidance from the United States government and purchased equipment from an entity-listed company that is complicit in China’s atrocities against” the Uighurs, read the joint letter addressed to Bezos. “While buying equipment from Dahua Technology is not illegal, it does raise several questions for you, as the chief executive of Amazon.
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JMBooyah Is it fair to surmise that Bezos is stepping down because this broke? Obv the chances of next to nil but I’ve seen people step down for less.
JMBooyah Amazon isn’t the first nor the last company to do business with the Chinese government, and it has been long past the time for the US to stop doing business with a country that terrorizes its citizens along with harassing and imprisoning ethnic minorities.
JMBooyah Why is a massive retail company doing business with a security entity that makes facial recognition software designed to help the Chinese government identify and harass an ethnic minority? Now I know why Bezos left. He knew this was coming.
JMBooyah Sad to read that Amazon decided to partner with that company when such software design documents exist. There is an opportunity for tech giants to take the lead in showing ethical behavior
JMBooyah If we cannot stop our own gov from abuses of the FISA court, can you even imagine the scope of abuse of facial recognition technology by the gov like CCP? Shame on amazon, nike, nba for complicity HumanRightsViolations Uighurs UighurGenocide
JMBooyah Wow
JMBooyah Nothing to see here
JMBooyah amazon amazonnews JeffBezos - you guys are trash
JMBooyah Wow, WWIII can’t come soon enough
JMBooyah No different than Trump wanting to ban the chinese “TiC Tok” app! There's reason to believe this app was intended for the teenager but the app had total access to the account holders files & access to the phone camera! I think it was ignored because of Trumps name or at the end !
JMBooyah Oof that's some next level automated racism.
jwkritchie JMBooyah do washingtonpost talk about this?
JMBooyah 95% of murderers and violent criminals are Democrats. Let’s use this facial recognition technology to apprehend them!😀
JMBooyah Not often these days you can find an issue where you’re on the all the Senators’ side.
JMBooyah Bezos stepping down makes more sense now ...
JMBooyah Hitler would approve.
JMBooyah What The Actual Fuck. Wow. This is so disgusting. I can’t.
JMBooyah As they should be! What a lack of social responsibility 🤬
JMBooyah Seems Bezos got out just in time.
JMBooyah yep probably one of the many reasons he stepped down as CEO, Bezos most likely got involved in some shady ass contracts and got a new CEO to take his place when the shit hits the fan with Congress.
JMBooyah The people who provide these technologies don’t know that the traditions of the Chinese dynasties are to destroy the artisans who built the tombs for the royal family.
JMBooyah they won't lose a single sale
JMBooyah MarkDaddyEdgar
JMBooyah Amazon, don't you make enough money that you don't have to get involved with these types.
JMBooyah Jesus. This I one of the most dangerous things I've ever heard.
JMBooyah Why nothing ever happens after these hearings? Is it just publicity stunt?
JMBooyah I was wondering why Jeff Bezos mysteriously stepped down the other day 🧐 Amazon and extreme capitalism are beyond redemption or forgiveness! When you profit from human suffering and misery you are the enemy.
JMBooyah Probably hosted on their website, unlike Parler
JMBooyah Uighurs are the new niggers
JMBooyah Did Amazon actually buy this? Shocking.
JMBooyah Waiting for the bots to come in explaining how China isn't out for Uighurs and hunting them down like prey and nothing bad ever happens in China. 🙄
JMBooyah Is Bezos stepping down logical now?
JMBooyah lul wtf
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JMBooyah I'm in Amazon member / have an account but this seems all kinds of sketchy and unacceptable. Why partner or have a contract with a company that infringes on the rights of Uighurs along Chinese civilians and other marginalized groups and or is complacent in their oppression?
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JMBooyah Enjoy hell Bezos and all you other globalist cronies
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josh_hammer JMBooyah JeffBezos may be the Henry Ford of our time...and that’s NOT a compliment
JMBooyah Around 50% population in Xinjiang is Uighur... Do you want to say the camera will alarm 50% chance it scans any human😳
MZHemingway JMBooyah AI gotcha
JMBooyah So people recognize this as absolutely fucked right? Just wondering like this is really fucked
JMBooyah Fucking christ. The revolution will not be televised but the next holocaust will be available with next day shipping. Fuck bezos.
JMBooyah CCP_China_Watch Kyruer
JMBooyah Fuck amazon. They're too powerful to be held accountable for anythint.
JMBooyah JeffBezos belongs in prison
JMBooyah This is why some tech shouldn't be easily available to Police, unless it's warranted with a, warrant! Higher agencies like FBI/CIA, OKAY.
JMBooyah JeffBezos are you against human rights? Is money more important than killing ethnic groups?
JMBooyah Amazon is dirty af
JMBooyah This is our world hooked on capitalism. Any questions?
Sens. Menendez and Rubio sent the letter to Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos one day after JMBooyah reported on Dahua product support documents that suggest the company’s technology can issue “real-time warnings for non-local Uighurs.'
My husband who’s a trafficker from Xinjiang told me about this technology’s long time ago. His mother is probably involved with the concentration camps there. They are cruel people who only care about money. They used me here in America to gain access and play the stock market.
But we love China, right? Trade, social control, communism, abuse of humams/religious-political opponents? Come on, man!
Trump and everyone that stood by him should be prosecuted to the fullest for all their crimes!!!
Not the only ugly thing Bezos (& his pairs) is/are doing!
Yes, no thanks.