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Major camera company can sort people by race, alert police when it spots Uighurs

Facial recognition software developed by Dahua, a Chinese video surveillance firm sanctioned by the U.S., purports to detect the race of individuals caught on camera and offers to alert police clients when it identifies members of the Turkic ethnic group Uighurs.

Column: Millions of faces scanned without approval. We need rules for facial recognition

Federal authorities say a San Francisco company scanned the faces of millions of people without their knowing it.

Facial recognition may help find Capitol rioters — but it could harm many others, experts say

Normalizing surveillance tactics that have been used disproportionately on Black and brown communities may have big consequences, activists and academics warn.