Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Friday, August 29th.

Today on Forbes, Intel worked with Chinese firms sanctioned for enabling human rights abuses.

Last 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, quote,

because it enables human rights violations, including high

technology surveillance, targeted at the general population, U.S., 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 HickVision,

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 rights abuses

through surveillance of U.GERS. In promotional materials for its so-called deep-eye smart

camera on Intel's website, Hick Vision enthusiastically describes its, quote, in-depth cooperation

with Intel and lists multiple ways Intel's tech is integrated into its surveillance

technology. It says, quote, this kind of collaboration and cyclical innovation has

enabled HickVision to achieve gratifying results in promoting intelligent video surveillance.

A note for our viewers and listeners, these quotes are machine translated.

Intel also highlights the use of its atom processor in Cloudwalk's Juyan Smart cameras,

which it says are focused on retail.

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