Uyghur Students Targeted In PRC Police "Anti-Terrorism" Project

Uyghur students are being explicitly targeted as part of a wide-ranging "anti-terrorism" project in PRC.
This confirms PRC discrimination against Uyghur students, with Hikvision separately winning a 'Smart Campus' deal requiring Ramadan warnings for Uyghurs.
Uyghurs are often treated as "terrorists" by PRC policing systems.
A Hangzhou police project tracks "Uyghur university students" to "predict and control" people "related to terrorism", automatically alerting police of any "abnormal behaviors".
Behaviors considered "abnormal" include certain types of purchases, VPN usage, online communications, and even gathering at unspecified religious centers.
The system is aimed at securing Hangzhou and the 2023 Asian Games held there this fall. Four PRC integrators competed over the tender.
Hangzhou is a huge city of 11m people and is the headquarters of Alibaba, Hikvision, Dahua, and Uniview, although none of those companies were involved in this deal.
In January 2022, the Counter-Terrorism Department of Hangzhou Municipal Police put out a ~$85,000 tender for an intelligence system that can meet "the needs of counter-terrorism work" by utilizing "advanced technologies" and "big data".
The project is meant to improve the department's "ability to predict and control all kinds of local terrorism-related persons" and provide security for the Hangzhou Asian Games.
The Hangzhou Asian Games were held from September to October 2023 and touted as an "unprecedented success" by PRC state media.
Uyghur Student Tracking System With "Abnormal Behavior" Alerts
The winning bid was submitted by PRC integrator China Oly, which pledged to develop a "comprehensive management and control platform" for "Uyghur students," including "trajectory monitoring" and "warnings of online and offline abnormal behaviors."
HOW TRACKING UYGHUR STUDENTS WORKS

The project integrates data from Hangzhou's universities and colleges to track Uyghur students specifically Most of the data used already exists in Hangzhou Police's "City Brain Operating System", which China Oly helped launch in 2019.
PRC cities have huge police live facial recognition/ANPR networks and also track people's smartphones through WiFi'sniffers' and IMSI catchers, The New York Times reported in 2022. PRC police also have automatic access to certain types of data from private entities, such as hotel check-ins, which is not the case in the US.
Finally, tracking Uyghurs is easier as PRC resident identity cards disclose one's ethnic group.
The tender tracks "faces, vehicles, trajectories, and network locations" of "people of concern" who are then displayed on a "map" that alerts whenever targets enter unspecified "prevention and control" zones.
This also shows how Hangzhou has a track record of involvement in rights-abusing solutions, with Hangzhou firms Alibaba, Hikvision, Dahua, and Uniview all getting caught: Alibaba Uyghur Recognition As A Service, Hikvision Markets Uyghur Ethnicity Analytics, Dahua Provides "Uyghur Warnings" To China Police, and Uniview Racist Uyghur Recognition Revealed.
In public no PRC company has admitted to targeting Uyghurs, but internally this has happened at least once, when Hikvision's own hired attorney admitted to partners that Hikvision's huge Xinjiang police contracts target Uyghurs.

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