As China Tracked Muslims, Alibaba Showed Customers How They Could, Too

As the Chinese government tracked and persecuted members of predominantly Muslim minority groups, the technology giant Alibaba taught its corporate customers how they could play a part.

Alibaba’s website for its cloud computing business showed how clients could use its software to detect the faces of Uighurs and other ethnic minorities within images and videos. The feature was built into Alibaba software that helps web platforms monitor digital content for material related to terrorism, pornography and other red-flag categories, the website said.

It could not be determined whether or how Alibaba’s clients had used the minority detection tool. But the potential for troubling use is high.

Source: NYT #Dec16

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/technology/alibaba-china-facial-recognition-uighurs.html

#Alibaba #China #Uyghur #Xinjiang #Surveillance

#Alibaba Fined $2.8 Billion on Competition Charge in China 💸💸💸

https://www.ntd.com/alibaba-fined-2-8-billion-on-competition-charge-in-china_595262.html

TOTAL control. That’s what #CCP want. Your business? Your freedom? Your power? Sorry, none of those are actually yours.
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BBC: Xinjiang Police test emotion-detecting AI on Uyghurs

It was revealed earlier that Alibaba’s facial recognition technology can be used to identify Uyghurs. Afterwards, Alibaba announced that they have eliminated any ethnic tag in their products. However, a Chinese software engineer showed to BBC's “Panorama” programme that, Xinjiang police are testing emotion-detecting AI. Some human rights activists described the incident as shocking.

AI to analyses facial expression and skin pores of the tied suspect

The software engineer who did not disclose his company showed 5 photographs to BBC, saying that China is testing emotional recognition system. He claims that his job is to install such systems in police stations in Xinjiang. “The Chinese government use Uyghurs as test subjects for various experiments just like rats are used in laboratories”, he said, “We placed the emotion detection camera 3m from the subject. It is similar to a lie detector but far more advanced technology."

Source : Stand News #May27

https://bit.ly/3zgHfyi

#Alibaba #EmotionRecognition #Xinjiang #Uyghurs #Software #BBC #HumanRights #Panorama #China

The #CCP is reining in it’s tech companies. But is it for control, finance or politics? Why does Chinese leader Xi Jinping and his government want to take companies like #Tencent and #Alibaba down a notch?

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#Economy #CCP
#GeorgeSoros: Xi’s crackdown on private enterprise shows he does not understand the market economy

The following is an article written by George Soros, the chair and founder of #SorosFundManagement and the #OpenSocietyFoundations and was published in Financial Times.

//Xi Jinping, China’s leader, has collided with economic reality. His crackdown on private enterprise has been a significant drag on the economy.

The most vulnerable sector is real estate, particularly housing. China has enjoyed an extended property boom over the past two decades, but that is now coming to an end.

Evergrande, the largest real estate company, is over-indebted and in danger of default. This could cause a crash. 

The crackdown by the Chinese government is real. Unnoticed by the financial markets, the Chinese government quietly took a stake and a board seat in TikTok owner ByteDance in April. The move gives Beijing one seat on a three-person board of directors and first-hand access to the inner workings of a company that has one of the world’s largest troves of personal data. The market is more aware that the Chinese government is taking influential stakes in Alibaba and its subsidiaries. 

Xi does not understand how markets operate. As a consequence, the sell-off was allowed to go too far. It began to hurt China’s objectives in the world. Recognising this, Chinese financial authorities have gone out of their way to reassure foreign investors and markets have responded with a powerful rally. But that is a deception.

Xi regards all Chinese companies as instruments of a one-party state. Investors buying into the rally are facing a rude awakening. That includes not only those investors who are conscious of what they are doing, but also a much larger number of people who have exposure via pension funds and other retirement savings...//

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https://www.ft.com/content/ecf7de34-e595-4814-9cbd-4a5119187330

Source: Financial Times #Aug30

#Crackdown #PropertyMarket #CommunistChina #Birthrate #Tiktok #Alibaba #Evergrande

#Economy
No Chinese Stock Left Among Global Top 10 as #Tencent Slides

//Tencent Holdings Ltd. has lost its place among the world’s 10 largest companies by market value, leaving no Chinese company in the list as Bejing’s regulatory crackdown continues to wreak havoc on the stock market.

Hong Kong-listed shares of the gaming and social media company fell 0.5% Thursday, valuing it at $556 billion. That’s just below U.S. chipmaker Nvidia Corp., data compiled by Bloomberg shows.

This is the first time that a Chinese company isn’t among the world’s ten largest since 2017, the data show. Tencent’s unseating follows that of #Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. earlier this year, as China’s tech behemoths face tougher rules on everything from monopolistic practices to data security and kids’ gaming hours.//

Source: Bloomberg #Sept16

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-16/tencent-s-slide-leaves-china-with-no-stocks-in-global-top-10

#CCP #HengSengIndex #ChinaMarket #StockMarket

#jackma still have a place in #ccp china? Probably not.
Ant group? Really like an ant to #ccp - so easy to kill.
#antgroup #ipo #china #fuckccp #boycottchina #beijing #alibaba #meme

In a major stock fall, China’s largest tech company #Alibaba has lost nearly $350 billion in the world's biggest wipeout.

Flooding, power shortages, and strict pandemic prevention measures are all sending #FoodPrices soaring in #China. Some vegetables are reportedly twice as expensive as before.

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According to a Bloomberg report, in just a year, #Alibaba lost $344 billion in market cap—the largest-ever decline in value of any company in the world.

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Chinese e-commerce giant #Alibaba is taking action to prop up its tumbling #SharePrice. It raised its share buyback program to $25 billion on Tuesday.

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The billionaire owner of a major U.S. #BasketballTeam is also the co-founder of Chinese tech giant #Alibaba. A report sheds light on how he’s linked to China.

Food and medicine are in #ShortSupply under Shanghai’s lockdown. Millions of residents are still stuck at home, but some are starting to speak out.

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Swedish fashion giant #HM has reopened its official store on #Alibaba’s T-mall. It comes 16 months after the Chinese site took it down following the brand's criticisms of #humanRightsAbuses in the Xinjiang region.

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Cyberspace Administration of China: Already Held 30 Large IT Companies' Algorithm Technologies

Cyber Administration of China (#CAC) indicated on #Aug12 that 30 top IT companies have submitted part of their algorithm details, such as how to collect personal data and how to set up individual recommendation content. 

Companies includes #Tencent, #TikTok under #ByteDance, #MeiTuen, #iFeng, #Weibo, #Youku, #Kuaishou, #Baidu, #Sina, #Xiaomi, #WeChat, and #Tmall and #Taobao under #Alibaba.

#Bloomberg report stated that China can have full grasp of every move done by the citizens on the internet, and even all purchase detail and personal information can be seen clearly via the relevant enterprises and applications.

The CAC passed the regulations on algorithm recommendation in March this year, requiring all enterprises to reveal the algorithm used in every application.

Nominally, they can solve the issue of data misuse and enhance cyber security. But once when the authority obtained algorithm technology, they can take further control over web activity and carry out political propaganda.

They even can take "National Security" as an excuse, to obtain citizens' and companies' information.

Source: PC Market #Aug17
https://www.pcmarket.com.hk/china-netcom-algorithm-technology-of-30-technology-giants-has-been-mastered/?fbclid=IwAR3nrfecOdr8bYlAdIkaE3S783sF8pEprBrq_7Jg46s3lLXzzi1Pv8aSX0k

#CyberAdministrationofChina #surveillance #NationalSecurity #Webtracking #AlgorithmTechnology

While a Chinese #SpyBalloon is floating over the #UnitedStates, there is news about #Alibaba Group sponsoring some of Washington’s most influential news outlets. Here are the details.

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Jack Ma, the founder of #Alibaba, is facing scrutiny after a controversial speech about the Chinese #FinancialSystem. In a matter of months, Ma had lost $12 billion after Chinese regulators conducted an antitrust investigation on him.

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#Alibaba and #Tencent shares rose Monday as #Beijing's $984 million fine for Ant Group was viewed as signaling the end of a regulatory crackdown on #China's tech sector.

The scrutiny of the last 2 years created an uncertain environment, wiping billions from China's tech sector.