Chinese Company That Surveils Uyghurs Has Major Role in Beijing Olympics

A Chinese company sanctioned by the United States for helping the government surveil Uyghurs is a major sponsor of the upcoming Beijing Olympics. iFlytek is the exclusive supplier of automated translation software for the upcoming Winter Olympics. The Chinese government uses the company's technology to surveil Chinese Uyghurs and other persecuted groups. The Commerce Department sanctioned iFlytek along with other Chinese artificial intelligence firms in 2019 for their role in "human rights violations and abuses in the implementation of China's campaign of repression, mass arbitrary detention, and high-technology surveillance." Sen. Jim Risch (R., Idaho), the top Republican on the Senate…