Chinese technology giant Huawei is retroceding on a patent application it filed for a facial recognition system intended to identify Uyghurs from other Chinese ethnicities.

China’s Huawei backtracks after filing for patent of AI software that could recognise Uighurs

Huawei has worked with at least four partner companies to develop surveillance technologies that claim to monitor people by ethnicity, The Washington Post reported Saturday.

Uighur alarm: Huawei worked with companies to build tools that track people by ethnicity

Regularly, the world hears of reports from various sources about China's atrocities on Muslim minority Uighurs, a community largely based in the region of Xinjiang.

After Uighurs, China targets religious identity of another Muslim minority

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