{"id":40396,"date":"2022-01-07T15:00:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T06:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/06\/china-sensetime-facial-recognition-uyghur-surveillance-us-sanctions"},"modified":"2022-01-07T15:00:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T06:00:31","slug":"us-sanctioned-chinas-top-facial-recognition-firm-over-uyghur-concerns-it-still-raised-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40396","title":{"rendered":"US sanctioned China\u2019s top facial recognition firm over Uyghur concerns. It still raised millions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SenseTime raised $512m from non-US investors and recently debuted on the Hong Kong stock exchange<\/p>\n<p>SenseTime, China\u2019s largest facial recognition startup, has come under increasing scrutiny by the US government for its alleged role in the surveillance of Uyghurs.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past two years, the US has used sanctions to escalate pressure on the company, first by adding it to the government\u2019s entity list, which restricts US exports to the company, and this December, by banning US investment in the firm.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/06\/china-sensetime-facial-recognition-uyghur-surveillance-us-sanctions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SenseTime raised $512m from non-US investors and recently debuted on the Hong Kong stock exchangeSenseTime, China\u2019s largest facial recognition startup, has come under increasing scrutiny by the US government for its alleged role in the surveillance of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,50,474,2052,42,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-china","category-surveillance","category-uyghurs","category-world-news","category-xinjiang"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2616"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40397,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40396\/revisions\/40397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}