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China Uyghur Analytic Projects Require Intel And NVIDIA, Intel Condemns, NVIDIA Silent
Published Dec 02, 2019 13:51 PM
At least 8 PRC China police projects require NVIDIA and Intel chips to power their Uyghur-detecting analytics, according to procurement documents found by IPVM.
Intel promptly condemned the usage while NVIDIA remains silent to IPVM inquiries. Intel told IPVM it had no idea about this and condemned human rights abusing applications of their products, adding that it did not always have control over where its chips end up. NVIDIA, which has heavily promoted Tesla GPUs for PRC smart cities in the past, did not respond to repeated requests for comment from IPVM.
Meanwhile, the PRC government has increasingly promoted the use of its own domestic chips, in sharp contrast to the ongoing requirements for US chips in these video surveillance projects.
In this note, we examine this news and the human rights concerns, including:
- Background: Ethnicity Analytics in the PRC
- Evidence Of Ethnicity Analytics Mandated from the Top
- Examples: 8 Separate Police Projects
- Western Equipment Easily Available
- Not Subject to Sanctions
- Intel: "Opposes Any Abuse of Human Rights", Can't Always Control Where Chips End Up
- NVIDIA No Response, Previously Touted Tesla GPUs for China Smart Cities
- Amnesty International: "Extra Precautions" Needed for AI Equipment
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Comments (7)
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Undisclosed #1
Dec 02, 2019U
Undisclosed #2
Dec 02, 2019It should support the detection of Uyghur/non-Uyghur facial attributes...
what software packages currently support Uyghur identification?
JH
John Honovich
Dec 02, 2019No commercially available ones we have seen in the West. I'll let Charles address what is being offered inside of China.
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Undisclosed #2
Dec 06, 2019devil’s advocacy:
imagine there was, besides IPVM, another independent security industry news organization (crazy i know, but bear with me).
now imagine that during their reporting they came to you and said,
”We have seen several of the deployment plans for facial recognition cameras in Uyghur. Some apparently were generated by a tool known as the IPVM calculator. Are you aware of this, and will you attempt to deny such use in the future?”
JH
John Honovich
Dec 06, 2019will you attempt to deny such use in the future?
We are banned in China, which effectively denies such use even now.
Also, the calculator does not do anything specifically for facial recognition so not clear how we could know or determine how it is used.
That said, we would take the same position as Intel, condemning such use.
UM
Undisclosed Manufacturer #3
Dec 03, 2019It is quite probably the software they are using is using the SenseTime Facial Recognition Server.
Older System specifications requirements of their Servers for face detection are very close to the ones expertly reported here, which both specify use of GPU and als the Intel Xenon CPU's. Their software is using the CUDA part of the GPU to process the detections.
GPU * 4. Intel E5 CPU. Sounds familuar.
UM
Undisclosed Manufacturer #4
Dec 03, 2019That was a fantastically researched article - well done - very informative and a reminder to manufacturers that they cannot hide what they are doing re: investigative journalism (there’s always a trail if you follow the money/shipping invoices).