Monday, February 18, 2019

Data Leak Exposes Vast Hi-Tech Chnese Surveillance Operation In Xinjiang

The Chinese government has ramped up personal surveillance in Xinjiang over recent years. Photo: AFP

SCMP: China data leak exposes vast hi-tech surveillance operation in Xinjiang

* Dutch researcher says tracking firm left database of personal details unprotected for months

A Chinese surveillance firm is tracking the movements of more than 2.5 million people in the far-western Xinjiang region, according to a data leak flagged by a Dutch internet expert.

An online database containing names, ID card numbers, birth dates and location data was left unprotected for months by Shenzhen-based facial-recognition technology firm SenseNets Technology, according to Victor Gevers, co-founder of non-profit organisation GDI.Foundation, who first noted the vulnerability in a series of social media posts last week.

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WNU Editor: Here is a good article on how extensive China's surveillance operation is throughout the country .... Leave no dark corner (ABC News Online).

3 comments:

RussInSoCal said...

I have seen reports that the highways in China are riven with camera gantries spaced about a mile apart. They take a photo of every single vehicle to ensure mo misbehavior is happening in the care as you drive. Under assurances of fines and other penalties by the Chinese Government.

/Sort ten times worse than the French road cams.

Jac said...

China is so nice! As any communist government it wants the best for every body, even they don't want it.
Trade war is not enough we have to do it with many other pressure : Taiwan, South China Sea, North China sea and everywhere, plus a front of all the western countries on trades.

Carl said...

Do you really think this is any different from what's been set up in New York or London or from what the NSA and GCHQ do? What this is really about is not Chinese surveillance but the demonization of China into an enemy image. This is a really stupid thing to do.