#Analysis
Online Detective
(9 Apr) A news article forwarded by a friend (https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/04/07/beware-of-defective-wrongly-manufactured-ir-thermometers/) said that people from Thailand found a faulty IR thermometer that could read ~36°C even when the sensor is removed. I searched for the brand name “HEACO” from the video, and found that HKTV used to sell other thermometers of the same brand, but they are now off the shelves. This thermometer “case” seemed to be manufactured in different factories, and there are at least three brands with the same “case” on HKTV’s website.
There isn’t much information on the company HEACO, but I found a Facebook page with the same logo. It appears to be a Russian company. Although I don’t have any proof that the HEACO thermometer in the video is a fake, nor do I know if HEACO sells counterfeit products, it is worth pursuing. Why are there three companies using the same case for thermometers? Does the thermometer work normally under standard conditions?
So I searched for G SIM STORE, the shop that sells other HEACO thermometers on HKTV, and found that it is related to a Youtube channel (both profile pictures are the letter G made from dots). The channel’s videos are all on sim card sales, and there is a web link to HKTV in the introduction. It seems like medical products are not the primary products of this company.
Other than that, there are two other companies on HKTV that sell thermometers of the same “case”. I also searched for these companies’ brand and shop name. One of the shops is called “Ying Kang Medicine”. According to Facebook, their shop is in Tsuen Wan, and the brand of the thermometers they sell is called “Bo Hui”. However, I couldn’t find any information about the brand on Google. That’s all I’ve found.
The other shop is called “XCSource”, and I found out that it is a foreign company with an official website. However, thermometer is not one of the products on their official website. I searched for the company’s name and the word ‘thermometer’ as keywords on Amazon, and there were no related products. At this point, I suspect that this company’s trademark was stolen and used to sell thermometers of unknown sources on HKTV.
Details could be found on the photo attached.
Oh, wasn’t there a Chinese businessman who talked about exporting fake thermometers so America would have more infected cases?
Source: Facebook
#HEACO #Thermometer #YingKangMedicine #XCSource #Fake
Online Detective
(9 Apr) A news article forwarded by a friend (https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/04/07/beware-of-defective-wrongly-manufactured-ir-thermometers/) said that people from Thailand found a faulty IR thermometer that could read ~36°C even when the sensor is removed. I searched for the brand name “HEACO” from the video, and found that HKTV used to sell other thermometers of the same brand, but they are now off the shelves. This thermometer “case” seemed to be manufactured in different factories, and there are at least three brands with the same “case” on HKTV’s website.
There isn’t much information on the company HEACO, but I found a Facebook page with the same logo. It appears to be a Russian company. Although I don’t have any proof that the HEACO thermometer in the video is a fake, nor do I know if HEACO sells counterfeit products, it is worth pursuing. Why are there three companies using the same case for thermometers? Does the thermometer work normally under standard conditions?
So I searched for G SIM STORE, the shop that sells other HEACO thermometers on HKTV, and found that it is related to a Youtube channel (both profile pictures are the letter G made from dots). The channel’s videos are all on sim card sales, and there is a web link to HKTV in the introduction. It seems like medical products are not the primary products of this company.
Other than that, there are two other companies on HKTV that sell thermometers of the same “case”. I also searched for these companies’ brand and shop name. One of the shops is called “Ying Kang Medicine”. According to Facebook, their shop is in Tsuen Wan, and the brand of the thermometers they sell is called “Bo Hui”. However, I couldn’t find any information about the brand on Google. That’s all I’ve found.
The other shop is called “XCSource”, and I found out that it is a foreign company with an official website. However, thermometer is not one of the products on their official website. I searched for the company’s name and the word ‘thermometer’ as keywords on Amazon, and there were no related products. At this point, I suspect that this company’s trademark was stolen and used to sell thermometers of unknown sources on HKTV.
Details could be found on the photo attached.
Oh, wasn’t there a Chinese businessman who talked about exporting fake thermometers so America would have more infected cases?
Source: Facebook
#HEACO #Thermometer #YingKangMedicine #XCSource #Fake
#Newspaper
AC2 Canteen newly installed thermometer has facial recognition function, and raises concerns for safety and privacy
(18 Aug) AC2 Canteen reopened on 13 Aug, and has thermometer installed at the entrance, to check the body temperature of visitors.
Different from the other thermometers in the campus, this thermometer checks and indicates visitors’ body temperature by taking photos. When the thermometer is in operation, the monitor displays the below message, ‘Welcome, face recognising.’ as it is testing body temperature. After temperature checking is completed, the message ‘Permission to the access.’ is shown. In addition, the hardware setting, ie height and distance of thermometer, is fixed. Thus it might not effectively check the temperature of people of various heights and distance. People who have meal in the canteen expressed the inconvenience of not having any indication of where to stand or distance to keep for such temperature checking.
Thermometer from SenseTime, a Chinese enterprise with multiple projects with Chinese government
Our journalists investigated and reported that such thermometer is manufactured by SenseTime. And products in the same same series can be coupled with its door lock system.
SenseTime is an Artificial intelligence startup company established by Prof Tang Xiaoou and his team in the CUHK School of Engineering.
The Company was founded in Beijing at the end of 2014, with full name ‘SenseTime Group Limited’. Its business involves graphical processing, facial recognition, auto-pilot, augmented reality, deep learning, and big data analysis, etc.
SenseTime is also a well known Chinese IT enterprise, and has consistently supported and worked with the government on the social credit / surveillance system in China. Surveillance examples include banning smoking in Metro, identifying people who violate traffic rules or have outstanding loans, etc. The US government has blacklisted this corporation under Export Administration Regulations. Unless endorsed by the US government, the enterprises on this Entity List are forbidden from trading with any US enterprise.
In some cities in China, the metro stations have such facial recognition terminals installed at the metro entrances, to assist passengers to use metro service. Such service is dubbed as the ‘metro Face credit’ and with aim to reduce service time compared with using ordinary metro cards.
Resources:
https://www.hk01.com/社區專題/388516/內地-人臉識別-漸普及-帶個頭出街便可吃飯坐車-驗證僅需10秒
https://www.it-square.hk/archives/11979
https://www.sensetime.com/cn/product-detail?categoryId=132
#CityUniversity #CityU #CityBroadcastingChannel #HongKongSnitchingUniversity #TheMostInternationalisedUniversity
Source: City Broadcasting Channel
Translated by: Hong Kong Echo
#AC2 #CityU #Surveillance #BigData #SocialCreditSystem #CUHK #metro #SenseTime #TangXiaoou #Epidemic #Thermometer #FacialRecognition
AC2 Canteen newly installed thermometer has facial recognition function, and raises concerns for safety and privacy
(18 Aug) AC2 Canteen reopened on 13 Aug, and has thermometer installed at the entrance, to check the body temperature of visitors.
Different from the other thermometers in the campus, this thermometer checks and indicates visitors’ body temperature by taking photos. When the thermometer is in operation, the monitor displays the below message, ‘Welcome, face recognising.’ as it is testing body temperature. After temperature checking is completed, the message ‘Permission to the access.’ is shown. In addition, the hardware setting, ie height and distance of thermometer, is fixed. Thus it might not effectively check the temperature of people of various heights and distance. People who have meal in the canteen expressed the inconvenience of not having any indication of where to stand or distance to keep for such temperature checking.
Thermometer from SenseTime, a Chinese enterprise with multiple projects with Chinese government
Our journalists investigated and reported that such thermometer is manufactured by SenseTime. And products in the same same series can be coupled with its door lock system.
SenseTime is an Artificial intelligence startup company established by Prof Tang Xiaoou and his team in the CUHK School of Engineering.
The Company was founded in Beijing at the end of 2014, with full name ‘SenseTime Group Limited’. Its business involves graphical processing, facial recognition, auto-pilot, augmented reality, deep learning, and big data analysis, etc.
SenseTime is also a well known Chinese IT enterprise, and has consistently supported and worked with the government on the social credit / surveillance system in China. Surveillance examples include banning smoking in Metro, identifying people who violate traffic rules or have outstanding loans, etc. The US government has blacklisted this corporation under Export Administration Regulations. Unless endorsed by the US government, the enterprises on this Entity List are forbidden from trading with any US enterprise.
In some cities in China, the metro stations have such facial recognition terminals installed at the metro entrances, to assist passengers to use metro service. Such service is dubbed as the ‘metro Face credit’ and with aim to reduce service time compared with using ordinary metro cards.
Resources:
https://www.hk01.com/社區專題/388516/內地-人臉識別-漸普及-帶個頭出街便可吃飯坐車-驗證僅需10秒
https://www.it-square.hk/archives/11979
https://www.sensetime.com/cn/product-detail?categoryId=132
#CityUniversity #CityU #CityBroadcastingChannel #HongKongSnitchingUniversity #TheMostInternationalisedUniversity
Source: City Broadcasting Channel
Translated by: Hong Kong Echo
#AC2 #CityU #Surveillance #BigData #SocialCreditSystem #CUHK #metro #SenseTime #TangXiaoou #Epidemic #Thermometer #FacialRecognition
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