Mr. Tommy Zwicky Huawei European communications managers have resigned from the Chinese firm over concerns about its role in the surveillance of Muslim Uighurs. He had worked in the company’s Danish office for six months and also was a former journalist.
Mr. Zwicky had previously worked for a Danish newspaper, and before that was editor-in-chief of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation.
He officially remains under contract to Huawei until February and is unable to discuss his decision further. He first announced his departure via Twitter and LinkedIn.
It was mentioned a Uighur alarm system “Uighur alarm” system that it had worked on with Chinese facial-recognition specialist Megvii in 2018,it comes after internal Huawei documents were made public.
Huawei said it opposed discrimination.”We provide general-purpose connectivity products based on recognized industry standards, and we comply with ethics and governance systems around emerging technology”.
The firm has previously said its systems are not designed to target or label specific ethnic groups.
It is believed that the Chinese government has detained up to a million Uighurs in Xinjiang province in what the state defines as “re-education camps”.
Beijing has consistently denied mistreatment and says the camps are designed to stamp out terrorism and improve employment opportunities.
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