China Is Using Facial Recognition To Track Ethnic Minorities, Even In Beijing

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It's happened again - China's unconstrained approach to automating dystopia has been exposed by the lack of basic data security. TechCrunch reported on Friday that a security researcher had "found a smart city database accessible from a web browser without a password, [the details of which he passed] to TechCrunch in an effort to get the data secured." The data, which included "facial recognition scans on hundreds of people over several months," was hosted by Alibaba, a major player in China's tech sector and a backer of several of the AI unicorns behind the most sophisticated surveillance state capabilities.

...On Wednesday, Human Rights Watch (HRW) exposed details of a smartphone app that is used by the police in Xinjiang that packaged multiple data sources on monitored citizens. The system "tracked the movement of people by monitoring the 'trajectory' and location data of their phones, ID cards, and vehicles; it also monitoring the use of electricity and gas stations of everybody in the region. This is consistent with Xinjiang local government statements that emphasize officials must collect data for the IJOP system in a 'comprehensive manner' from 'everyone in every household'."

Two days later, and the system in this latest exposed data breach "monitors the residents around at least two small housing communities in eastern Beijing, the largest of which is Liangmaqiao, known as the city’s embassy district. The system is made up of several data collection points, including cameras designed to collect facial recognition data. The exposed data contains enough information to pinpoint where people went, when and for how long, allowing anyone with access to the data — including police — to build up a picture of a person’s day-to-day life."


China Is Using Facial Recognition To Track Ethnic Minorities, Even In Beijing
 

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Even Israel has employed one to prevent entry of aliens who might be inclined to terrorism even if they have no prior records.

Facial recognition can be used to detect personality or behavioral inclinations in a person. Although quite controversial obviously, it seems to work out well for Israel.
 
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Yeah well by genociding and putting the Uighurs in concentration camps, they're concerned about limited reprisals. Besides the slave labour force re-educated citizenry, help produce plenty of CCTV cameras at affordable prices.

I mean so much for Tibet, might as well continue genociding the Tibetan people too and shipping in Han Chinese. The altitude and harsh climate would make colonisation difficult I'd imagine, if it weren't for modern western technology. But at least they can establish better military positions against India, should the need arise.
 
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Even Israel has employed one to prevent entry of aliens who might be inclined to terrorism even if they have no prior records.

Facial recognition can be used to detect personality or behavioral inclinations in a person. Although quite controversial obviously, it seems to work out well for Israel.

you seem to be using a non sequitur to argue that china is doing something good here. china is using it to track ethnic minorities in the nation. china is also putting those same ethnic minorities in concentration camps. this is absolutely horribly wrong.
 
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