The United States is blacklisting a group of
Chinese tech companies that develop facial
recognition and other artificial intelligence
technology that the U.S. says is being used to
repress China’s Muslim minority groups.
A move this week by the U.S. Commerce
Department puts the companies on a so-called
Entity List for acting contrary to American
foreign policy interests.
The blacklist effectively bars U.S. firms from
selling technology to the Chinese companies
without government approval.