Exposed Chinese database shows depth of surveillance state
BEIJING — The Chinese database Victor Gevers found online was not just a collection of old personal details. The database Gevers found appears to have been recording people’s movements tracked by facial recognition technology, he said, logging more than 6.7 million coordinates in a span of 24 hours. Gevers found that SenseNets, a Chinese facial recognition company, had left the database unprotected for months, exposing people’s addresses, government ID numbers and more. “This system was open to the entire world, and anyone had full access to the data,” said Gevers, noting that a system designed to maintain control over individuals could have been “corrupted by a 12-year-old.” He said it included the coordinates of places where the individuals had recently been spotted by “trackers” — likely to be surveillance cameras. Hours after he revealed his findings on Twitter, Gevers said, he learned that the system might be used to surveil Xinjiang’s Muslim minority groups.
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