(Reuters) – Alibaba Group mentioned it is not going to enable its expertise for use for focusing on and figuring out particular ethnic teams, following a report that its facial recognition expertise can pick Uighur minorities.
Alibaba, in a press release, mentioned it was “dismayed” that Alibaba Cloud developed facial recognition expertise that features ethnicity as an attribute for tagging video imagery and that the agency by no means meant the expertise for use on this method.
“We have eliminated any ethnic tag in our product offering,” Alibaba mentioned.
Reporting by Brenda Goh and Se Younger Lee; Modifying by Tom Hogue
