Chinese surveillance company tracking 2.5m Xinjiang residents
(The Guardian China)

Internet expert exposes unsecured database believed to be targeting Muslim minoritiesA Chinese surveillance company has been tracking the movements of at least 2.5 million residents in a province where Muslim minorities have been the target of a far-reaching security clampdown, internet experts have found.Victor Gevers, of the non-profit group GDI.Foundation, which supports an open internet, discovered an unsecured database online that contained the name, sex, ethnicity, ID number, birth date and employer of residents in China´s western province of Xinjiang.These are the trackers which are connected the SenseNets database. They make part of this artificial intelligence-based security network which uses face recognition, crowd analysis, and personal verification. https://t.co/Y2YUz36FKN pic.twitter.com/Sx6r4Yv8Z8 Continue reading...