Security lapse exposed a Chinese smart city surveillance system
May 03, 2019TechCrunch
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The system also uses its facial recognition systems to detect ethnicities and labels them — such as “汉族” for Han Chinese, the main ethnic group of China — and also “维族” — or Uyghur Muslims, an ethnic minority under persecution by Beijing. Where ethnicities can help police identify suspects in an area even if they don’t have a name to match, the data can be used for abuse.