On Friday, President Donald #Trump announced that the U.S. government would take a 10% stake in the hardware manufacturer #Intel, involving the government in the private tech industry in a new, unprecedented way. Now Forbes has learned that Intel has little known partnerships with multiple #Chinese surveillance firms, including Uniview — which landed on a U.S. sanctions list last year “because it enables human rights violations, including high-technology surveillance targeted at the general population, Uyghurs and members of other ethnic and religious minority groups.” (Uniview has asked the U.S. to reconsider the sanctions.) Intel’s Chinese-language site also includes documents referencing partnerships with Hikvision, a major surveillance camera manufacturer that has been hit with a barrage of sanctions in the last five years, and Cloudwalk, a facial recognition company which was sanctioned in 2021. Both companies have been accused by the U.S. government of allegedly enabling human ...