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Huawei worked on several surveillance systems promoted to identify ethnicity, documents show

Facing an international outcry over its testing of a “Uighur alarm” system, Huawei said it is committed to human rights “at the highest level.” But the tech giant has worked with dozens of surveillance contractors over the years to build systems that could aid the Chinese government and police.
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