Two Australian universities are reviewing funding and research approval procedures due to concerns over links to technology that is being used to carry out mass human rights abuses by the Chinese Government in Xinjiang province.
Key points
- UTS, Curtin unis launch reviews amid links to surveillance technology used in China
- One academic conducted research for so-called “racial profiling” technology to detect ethnic minorities
- Human Rights Watch says China uses AI and surveillance to carry out human rights abuses against ethnic minorities
Last night, Four Corners revealed that the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) is conducting an internal review into its $10 million partnership with CETC, a Chinese state-owned military tech company that developed an app that Chinese security forces use to track and detain Muslim Uyghur citizens in Xinjiang.
Full Story: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-16/australian-unis-to-review-links-to-chinese-surveillance-tech/11309598
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