After the U.S. video surveillance industry research group IPVM revealed earlier this month that China’s huawei was involved in software tests that used face recognition technology to identify Uighurs, the top executives of Huawei’s U.K. and Danish companies both resigned, including Tommy Zwicky, Huawei’s Danish vice president of marketing and communications, who resigned in anger over Huawei’s role in the Uighur issue.
According to reports by the French broadcaster and the United Daily News, Zwicky is rumored to have told the media that he resigned “because of the way the Uyghur issue was handled”; the BBC news network also reported on the 17th that Zwicky was concerned about Huawei’s role in monitoring the Uyghurs and resigned.
Zwicky’s contract with Huawei expires in February next year, and the China Influence Monitor, a weekly newspaper of the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), a nonprofit, independent public policy research organization, noted on the 17th that Zwicky told the publication that he was not at liberty to talk much about his resignation until his contract expired.
Zwicky, a journalist by training, became Huawei’s vice president of marketing and communications in Denmark six months ago. After he announced his resignation on social media Twitter and LinkedIn, Huawei said he was only a low-level PR manager, not a VP position rumored to be a senior executive.
However, the BBC found an article when he was first recruited by Huawei, saying that Huawei had indeed created a special title of “vice president of marketing and communications” for Zwicky, and that the then head of Huawei Denmark praised Zwicky, “who is well known and respected in the Danish media community, and with him on board we feel confident that we can take communications to the next level.”
Zwicky replied to BBC inquiries, saying, “My title is vice president of marketing and communications at Huawei Denmark, and I have no further comment.
Edward Brewster, head of media communications at Huawei UK, also resigned in January next year, but it is unclear whether this is also related to Huawei’s involvement in the development of technology to monitor ethnic Vikings, the French broadcaster reported.
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