Tuesday, February 19, 2019

TECH_ Exposed Chinese database reveals scope of citizen surveillance

NEW YORK POST

TECH

Exposed Chinese database reveals scope of citizen surveillance

By Associated Press

February 19, 2019 | 2:35pm



Uighur security personnel patrol near the Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar in western China's Xinjiang region.
AP



BEIJING — The Chinese database Victor Gevers found online was not just a collection of old personal details.

It was a compilation of real-time data on more than 2.5 million people in western China, updated constantly with GPS coordinates of their precise whereabouts. Alongside their names, birthdates and places of employment, there were notes on the places that they had most recently visited — mosque, hotel, restaurant.

The discovery by Gevers, a Dutch cybersecurity researcher who revealed it on Twitter last week, has given a rare glimpse into China’s extensive surveillance of Xinjiang, a remote region home to an ethnic minority population that is largely Muslim. The area has been blanketed with police checkpoints and security cameras that apparently are doing more than just recording what happens.

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