The Daily Star's FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxA Chinese tech company that offered facial recognition software that identified Uygurs and other ethnic minorities has denied being under investigation.Alibaba Group Holdings was criticised this week after it was revealed that it was promoting software that recognised people by ethnicity.The company said in a statement: “Racial or ethnic discrimination or profiling in any form violates Alibaba's policies and values.“We are dismayed to learn that Alibaba Cloud developed a facial recognition technology in a testing environment that included ethnicity as an algorithm attribute for tagging video imagery."We do not and will not permit our.