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Huawei documents reportedly show involvement in China’s surveillance efforts
‘The Washington Post’ said it found PowerPoint slides that detail its surveillance technologies.
M. Moon@mariella_moon
December 15th, 2021
Huawei has long denied working with the Chinese government to spy on other countries and China’s own citizens. But according to The Washington Post, it has reviewed 100 PowerPoint presentations from the company that can show how it’s linked to China’s surveillance projects. While many of the slides were marked confidential, they were reportedly posted on a public-facing Huawei website until they were removed last year.
The Post has published a handful of the slides translated into English, including one pitching a technology that can help authorities analyze voice recordings by comparing them against a large database of recorded “voiceprints.” It’s supposed to help with matters of national security, and as the publication notes, that means it could be used to identify individuals involved in political dissent, Hong Kong and Taiwan matters and discussions surrounding ethnic relations.
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The Post admits that it can’t confirm who the slides were shown to or when, but many of them were created back in 2014 and were edited as recently as last year. A Huawei spokesperson told the publication, though, that the company “has no knowledge of the projects mentioned in the Washington Post report” and that it provides “cloud platform services that comply with common industry standards.”
https://www.engadget.com/huawei-documents-china-surveillance-130555612.html
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Global Times
WaPo plays old trick to smear Huawei with Xinjiang policy
By GT staff reporters
Published: Dec 15, 2021 09:31 PM
The Washington Post is just playing an old trick as it tries to hype a Xinjiang-related issue to attack Chinese authorities and companies in terms of so-called human rights, experts said, after the newspaper claimed that Huawei is helping prisons in Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region monitor criminals with its artificial intelligence (AI) technology, citing some “leaked” and “confidential” PowerPoint presentations (PPTs) from the company.
The Washington Post on Tuesday claimed that Huawei had helped many prisons in China – including those in Xinjiang – to create monitoring systems with its AI technology, which can “identify individuals by voice, monitor political individuals of interest, manage ideological reeducation and labor schedules for prisoners, and help retailers track shoppers using facial recognition.”
Although Huawei denied knowledge of such a project to the US newspaper and stressed that it “provides cloud platform services that comply with common industry standards,” the report still maliciously related the application of the technology in the region since 2017 to the so-called mass detentions of Uygurs in Xinjiang.
It is just the latest case that some Western media tried to play the Xinjiang card to smear China in terms of “human rights issues,” as it is very normal for Chinese governments and companies to cooperate to apply high-tech products in city management, as the country is striving to gain a lead in the global race to build an intelligent and data-driven society, a person close to the case told the Global Times on Wednesday.
Another major aspect of the project is to install closed-circuit TV cameras in cities to ensure security. This has also been smeared by some Western media for a long time as a measure to “monitor people,” the person noted.
Huawei did not respond to an interview request from the Global Times as of press time on Wednesday.
Chinese experts and officials have refuted such clichés as complete nonsense and revealed that such allegations were intended to serve the agenda of attacking China’s smart city construction.
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202112/1241582.shtml
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