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Still, the speed and intent of this response to protect workers in the absence of an effective national-level US response is commendable, but these Chinese companies have also been detained in the form of severe human rights abuses. There is.
Dahua is one of the leading providers of “smart camp” systems that Vera Zhou experienced in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (the company’s facilities are supported by technologies such as “computer vision system, big data analytics, cloud computing”. The company states).
In October 2019, Dahua and Megvii were one of eight Chinese tech companies on a list that blocks U.S. citizens from selling goods and services (this list is for U.S. companies outside the U.S.). It aims to prevent companies from supplying what they consider to be a threat. National interests prevent Amazon from selling to Dahua, but they cannot be purchased from Dahua). BGI’s subsidiary in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region was listed on the US non-trade list in July 2020.
Amazon’s purchase of a Dahua heat-mapping camera reminds us of the old moments of the spread of global capitalism, captured by historian Jason Moore with the striking phrase “Mississippi stands behind Manchester.” Let me.
What did Moore mean by this? When rereading Friedrich Engels’ analysis of the textile industry that made Manchester, England very profitable, he said many of the British Industrial Revolution without cheap cotton produced by US slave labor. I realized that the side was impossible.
Similarly, Seattle, Kansas City, and Seoul’s ability to respond quickly to pandemics depends in part on how the repression system in northwestern China has opened up space for training biometric monitoring algorithms.
Worker protection during a pandemic depends on forgetting about college students like Bella Chow. That means ignoring the dehumanization of thousands of detainees and handicapped workers.
At the same time, Seattle is also standing Previous Xinjiang.
Amazon plays a unique role in monitoring illegal immigrants, given its partnership with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Department for undocumented migrants and its active lobbying efforts to support weak biometric surveillance regulations. increase.
More directly, Microsoft Research Asia, the so-called “birthplace of AI in China,” has contributed to the growth and development of both Dahua and Megvii.
China’s national funding, global terrorist discourse, and US industry training are three main reasons why the fleet of Chinese companies is currently leading the world in face and voice recognition. This process was accelerated by the war against terrorism, which centered on placing Uighurs, Kazakhs, and Hui in complex digital and material enclosures, but now data-intensive infrastructure systems are nationwide.
It is spread throughout the Chinese technology industry to produce flexible digital enclosures. Although not as large as the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
China’s vast and swift response to the pandemic has further accelerated this process by implementing and clarifying these systems quickly. They work.. They can effectively change human behavior as they expand state power in such a drastic and intimate way.
Alternative approach
But China’s approach to a pandemic is not the only way to stop it. Democratic states that have provided tests, masks, and financial support to those forced to stay home, such as New Zealand and Canada, have also been effective. These countries, even at the national level, have shown that involuntary surveillance is not the only way to protect the well-being of the majority.
In fact, many studies have shown that surveillance systems support systematic racism and dehumanization by allowing targeted populations to be detained. It is important for past and present U.S. governments to use entity lists to stop selling to companies such as Dahua and Megvii, while at the same time creating a double standard for U.S. companies to do the same. While funding, it is punishing Chinese companies for automating racism.
While the number of US-based companies continues to grow, they are trying to develop their own algorithms to detect racial phenotypes through a consent consumer approach. By making automated racialization a convenient form of marketing for things like lipstick, companies like Revlon are enhancing the technical scripts available to individuals.
As a result, in many respects race remains an unthinkable part of how people interact with the world. Police in the United States and China see automated assessment technology as a tool for detecting potential criminals and terrorists. The algorithm normally shows that black men or Uighurs are detected disproportionately by these systems.
They stop the police and those they protect from recognizing that surveillance is always about controlling and disciplining those who do not fit into the vision of those in power. Not only China, but the world is having problems with surveillance.
To counter the growing mundane and routine of automated racialization, the harm of biometric surveillance around the world must first be revealed. The lives of detainees must be made visible at the edge of lifelong power. Next, we need to clarify the role of world-class engineers, investors, and public relations firms in not considering human experience in designing for human re-education. The network of interconnects that Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region stands behind and in front of Seattle needs to be considered.
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