Uganda's Implementation of Huawei Facial Recognition Technology for Political Surveillance: A Case Study in AI Governance
November 29, 2019
The reported deployment of Huawei's AI-powered facial recognition technology by the Ugandan government for monitoring political opposition and dissent has sparked concerns over privacy, surveillance, and freedom. This incident underscores the need for responsible AI governance and highlights the importance of trustworthy AI systems in protecting human rights. JOIN US. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM).
- Alleged deployer
- ugandan-government
- Alleged developer
- huawei
- Alleged harmed parties
- political-opposition-in-uganda
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/371
Data source
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McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.
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