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As China Tracked Muslims, Alibaba Showed Customers How They Could, Too

The website for the tech titan’s cloud business described facial recognition software that could detect members of a minority group whose persecution has drawn international condemnation.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/technology/alibaba-china-facial-recognition-uighurs.html