Huawei patent mentions use of Uighur-spotting tech

Does anyone else get tired of this non-stop narrative pushing in headlines? The patent is innocuous while the article constantly clutches at straws trying to make it sound evil. It's about posture and gait estimation and mentions ethnicity in China once, nothing novel at all other than locking it down in Chinese patent courts.

There's two links of this same article (one uses the .co.uk tld) on the front page right now, neither has comments and the article itself is hilariously bad.

First subheading: "Forced-labour camps"

Oh jeez maybe it wasn't about computer vision and race detection after all.

Technology is an agnostic tool, racial detection in modern computer vision in the west is taboo but it certainly happens quietly, undoubtedly there is demand.

I can get Azure to tell me your gender and age right now[1]

Or I can use the cameras in my insurance brokers office to tell if you are lethargic[2]

But for some reason detecting a persons race is offlimits and the western world is terrified of even bringing it up despite the fact that there is securities companies and governments using "bad man" detection tools in numerous ways [3][4][5][6]

Make up your own mind here.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/co...

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.13714

[3] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00138-020-01123-z

[4] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.01219.pdf

[5] https://www.technocracy.news/tech-startup-claims-can-detect-...

[6] https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/airports-facial-recog...