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- Google decided to open a new AI research center in China, expanding its existing presence there. This in the face of expanding AI assisted surveillance in xinjiang and its 10 million population.

- Google decided not to renew its contract for project maven, a way to analyze drone footage using AI, for the US DoD

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> Google decided to open a new AI research center in China, expanding its existing presence there. This in the face of expanding AI assisted surveillance in xinjiang and its 10 million population.

What does the first point have to do with the second? Is Google assisting in surveillance in Xinjiang?

A more direct connection is Apple handing over access to all Chinese users' iCloud data to the PRC, despite knowing about the mass surveillance and detentions in Xinjiang that this data transfer enables. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/02/5-things-you-...

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