Yitu Technology

Yitu Technology is a Chinese technology company specialising in artificial intelligence with large deployments in the Xinjiang region of China. As of April 2018 it has been valued at about $2.4 billion.[1]

In October 2019, the company was sanctioned by the United States for allegedly using its technology for human rights abuses in Xinjiang against the Uyghur people.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]

References
  1. Pham, Sherisse (April 9, 2018). "Chinese AI startup dwarfs global rivals with $4.5 billion valuation". CNN. Retrieved May 25, 2020.
  2. "US sanctions 8 China tech companies over role in Xinjiang abuses". The Nikkei. Reuters. October 8, 2019. Archived from the original on November 9, 2019. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
  3. Strumpf, Dan; Kubota, Yoko (October 8, 2019). "Expanded U.S. Trade Blacklist Hits Beijing's Artificial-Intelligence Ambitions". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on November 8, 2019. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
  4. https://www.ft.com/content/663ab29c-e9bd-11e9-85f4-d00e5018f061
  5. https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/us-sanctions-chinese-tech-companies-including-sensetime-over-human-rights-abuses/
  6. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/10/09/2019-22210/addition-of-certain-entities-to-the-entity-list
  7. https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/documents/regulation-docs/691-supplement-no-4-to-part-744-entity-list/file
  8. https://onezero.medium.com/the-u-s-rubber-stamps-facial-recognition-systems-used-to-round-up-uighurs-in-china-595478547f86
  9. https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/07/trump-china-uighur-surveillance-038309

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