US sanctioned China’s top facial recognition firm over Uyghur concerns. It still raised millions

January 7, 2022

Activists and experts have called for further sanctions to be imposed on companies like SenseTime for months. In September 2021, the Uyghur Human Rights Project, a research and advocacy group, called on the US government to impose further sanctions on SenseTime and other companies allegedly involved in China’s anti-Uyghur campaign.

Louisa Greve, the director of global advocacy at the Uyghur Human Rights Project, agreed that the US investment ban can be a powerful tool, but said that more can be done to ensure individuals aren’t complicit in funding human rights violations. Greve thinks … the investment ban are … “a huge leap in leverage”. According to Greve, “it’s about complicity of American pension funds and university endowments as well as retirees’ own savings as well as people with investment portfolios”.

Read the full article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/06/china-sensetime-facial-recognition-uyghur-surveillance-us-sanctions