According to the documents received by the Washington Post, the Chinese company Huawei has been involved in the development of technologies for labor camps and surveillance systems in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The publication claims that the tech giant was involved in the persecution of ethnic minorities in the region.
The Washington Post writes that it was able to get PowerPoint slides from Huawei's website that appeared there by accident and then were removed. In total, the newspaper managed to receive more than 100 presentations, many of which were marked as confidential - they contained more than three thousand slides in total. According to the publication, they contained information about the collaboration of Huawei, as well as metadata dated from 2014 to 2020. In addition, the inscription Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. was found in some presentations. with copyright dates ranging between 2016 and 2018.
For example, one of the slides talks about a Huawei product, which is "the foundation of a single smart prison platform" that analyzes the workforce for production and the effectiveness of re-education. The Washington Post writes that some of these prisons and technology-driven companies are located in Xinjiang, while others are in Inner Mongolia and Shanxi provinces. The platform itself looks like a comprehensive prison monitoring system. She uses both standard penitentiary video cameras and software that determines the schedule of prisoners, including when they attend classes on ideological re-education.
Another slide in the presentation details the citizen surveillance system used in the same region. It is built on the basis of facial recognition technology and allows the authorities to track the actions and movements of “political persons of interest”. In 2020, it was reported that Huawei is working to ensure that the surveillance system can identify a citizen as a Uyghur. As noted by the Washington Post, in the new leaked document there is no information about such a development of the company.
In addition, the document provided by the publication details the technology that identifies people by voice recording, systems for tracking citizens' movements based on video surveillance records and systems for spying on employees at their workplaces.
The Washington Post notes that it has no information to whom and when these presentations in Chinese may have been shown. At the same time, the publication writes that some of the slides hinted that the methods and technologies described in them may have been used by the Chinese police or government agencies.
Huawei itself stated that it did not know anything about the projects mentioned in the Washington Post article.
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