Some of these companies have actively and repeatedly obscured their work in Xinjiang, including in hearings with foreign parliamentary committees. TikTok is also attracting public and media scrutiny in the US over national security implications, the use of US citizens data and allegations of censorship, including shadow banning (the down-ranking of particular topics via the apps algorithm so users dont see certain topics in their feed).įor most of these companies, the surveillance technologies and techniques being rolled out abroadoften funded by loans from the ExportImport Bank of China (China Eximbank) 3 have long been used on Chinese citizens, and especially on the Uyghur and other minority populations in Xinjiang, where an estimated 1.5 million people are being arbitrarily held in detention centres. In addition, weve added DJI, which specialises in drone technologies, and BeiDou, which isnt a company but the Chinese Governments satellite navigation system. Meiya Pico is a digital forensics and security company that created media headlines in 2019 because of its monitoring mobile app MFSocket. SenseTime, for example, is one of the worlds most valuable AI start-ups. The response to phase 1 of this projectit quickly became one of ASPIs most read productssuggests that the current lack of transparency about some of these companies operations and governance arrangements has created a gap this database is helping to fill.
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