The US added China’s SenseTime to the list of “Chinese military-industrial complex companies” (File)
Washington:
The United States on Friday imposed human rights sanctions involving China, Myanmar, North Korea and Bangladesh and added Chinese artificial intelligence startup Sensetime Group to an economic blacklist.
Canada and the United Kingdom also joined the United States in imposing sanctions related to human rights abuses in Myanmar.
The US Treasury Department said in a statement that it has added Chinese artificial intelligence company SenseTime to a list of “Chinese military-industrial complex companies”, accusing it of developing a facial recognition program that focuses on ethnic identity. With can determine the ethnicity of the target. Uighur.
As a result it would be subject to investment restrictions for US investors.
UN experts and rights groups estimate that more than a million people, mainly Uighurs and members of other Muslim minorities, were detained in a vast system of camps in China’s far-western region of Xinjiang in recent years Is.
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