Chinese multinational technology company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is offering Uyghur/ethnic minority recognition as a cloud service, according to a new report by surveillance industry researcher IPVM and The New York Times. Users simply send photographs of people taken on their phones or pulled from surveillance videos to Alibaba’s facial recognition service, then receive an alert if the subject is identified as a minority Uyghur from the western province of Xinjiang.

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