CloudWalk Technology

1306 Room, No. 26, Jinlong Road, Nansha District, Guangzhou, CN

https://www.bis.gov/regulations/ear/744#supplement-4-744

Cloudwalk Technology Co., Ltd. (Cloudwalk) operates or has operated in the surveillance technology sector of the economy of the PRC. Cloudwalk has developed facial recognition software designed to track and surveil members of ethnic minority groups, including Tibetans and Uyghurs, and alert authorities if too many individuals gather in specific locations. Cloudwalk’s surveillance technology is also used outside of China. In 2018, Cloudwalk and the Zimbabwean government agreed to the installment of a mass surveillance network in Zimbabwe. The agreement included a requirement that the Zimbabwean government send images it acquires from the surveillance network back to Cloudwalk’s offices in China, so that Cloudwalk could improve the ability of its facial recognition software to recognize individuals based on skin pigmentation.

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https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0538

2020-06-05

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