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Chinese State-Owned Surveillance Company #Dahua is Targeting #Uyghurs
Netizens discovered a source code package from China's Dahua Technology, one of China's largest makers of surveillance equipment, which shows that the company has made provisions to specifically identify Uyghurs with their cameras.
The state-owned enterprise has already been under US sanctions for its links to China's human rights abuses of Uyghurs in its Xinjiang province, and this discovery indicates that the company's technology is actively targeting the minority group, despite their previous denials.
Part of the discovered package, known as a software development kit (#SDK), includes descriptions of the results from Dahua's face recognition software. These descriptions include a field for ethnicity types; however, it only differentiates between Uyghur and non-Uyghur ("other").
Curiously, although ethnic Han Chinese comprises over 90% of China's population, the software makes no mention of the group, nor any other of the 56 ethnicities officially recognized by the ChinesecCommunist Party government.
Other details of the facial descriptions are also disturbing:
Aside from describing obvious characteristics (male/female, mask/no mask, etc), there is a field for "attractiveness", a score ranging from 1 to 100. "The higher the score, the more attractive the person," reads the comment attached to the field.
Another section of the SDK shows that these descriptions can be tied to the person's name, birthdate, home address, and even their emotions displayed on their face: smile, anger, disgust, and so on. There is even an emotion value for "screaming".
The fact that their surveillance software is so specifically designed to target Uyghurs - and no other ethnic group - strongly suggests that Dahua is making a conscious effort to support the Chinese Communist Party regime's suppression of the minority group.
Coupled with extensive profiling capabilities that the code hints at, one cannot ignore what Orwellian horrors this technology might enable China to implement - if it hasn't already done so in Xinjiang.
The Dahua SDK can be found on Github:
https://github.com/gaomingbo/dahua-netsdk/
The source code indicative question is in the file/com/dahua/lib/NetSDKLib.java
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Further reading:
Dahua's Response to US Sanction:
Human Rights Sanctions Shows Strong Dahua Technology
https://ipvm.com/reports/dahua-strong-sanction
#Dystopia #ConcentrationCamp #FaceRecognition #BigData
Chinese State-Owned Surveillance Company #Dahua is Targeting #Uyghurs
Netizens discovered a source code package from China's Dahua Technology, one of China's largest makers of surveillance equipment, which shows that the company has made provisions to specifically identify Uyghurs with their cameras.
The state-owned enterprise has already been under US sanctions for its links to China's human rights abuses of Uyghurs in its Xinjiang province, and this discovery indicates that the company's technology is actively targeting the minority group, despite their previous denials.
Part of the discovered package, known as a software development kit (#SDK), includes descriptions of the results from Dahua's face recognition software. These descriptions include a field for ethnicity types; however, it only differentiates between Uyghur and non-Uyghur ("other").
Curiously, although ethnic Han Chinese comprises over 90% of China's population, the software makes no mention of the group, nor any other of the 56 ethnicities officially recognized by the ChinesecCommunist Party government.
Other details of the facial descriptions are also disturbing:
Aside from describing obvious characteristics (male/female, mask/no mask, etc), there is a field for "attractiveness", a score ranging from 1 to 100. "The higher the score, the more attractive the person," reads the comment attached to the field.
Another section of the SDK shows that these descriptions can be tied to the person's name, birthdate, home address, and even their emotions displayed on their face: smile, anger, disgust, and so on. There is even an emotion value for "screaming".
The fact that their surveillance software is so specifically designed to target Uyghurs - and no other ethnic group - strongly suggests that Dahua is making a conscious effort to support the Chinese Communist Party regime's suppression of the minority group.
Coupled with extensive profiling capabilities that the code hints at, one cannot ignore what Orwellian horrors this technology might enable China to implement - if it hasn't already done so in Xinjiang.
The Dahua SDK can be found on Github:
https://github.com/gaomingbo/dahua-netsdk/
The source code indicative question is in the file/com/dahua/lib/NetSDKLib.java
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Further reading:
Dahua's Response to US Sanction:
Human Rights Sanctions Shows Strong Dahua Technology
https://ipvm.com/reports/dahua-strong-sanction
#Dystopia #ConcentrationCamp #FaceRecognition #BigData
#MassSurveillance
China-owned #Dahua Sees Human Rights Sanction as Proof of Technology
On October 15, less than a week after the US sanctioned Dahua and #Hikvision for human rights abuses, Dahua VP Zhu Jiangming told the PRC's National Business Daily:
"The fact that we are under the US control list shows that we indeed have a strong technological capability."
Zhu is executive VP of Dahua, a co-founder of the firm and the executive director of Leap Motor, a PRC electric car startup founded and run by Dahua executives.
Dahua has by far the largest documented presence of any surveillance provider in Xinjiang, having directly won almost $1 billion of surveillance projects with authorities there - significantly higher than Hikvision's ~$300m.
All these massive projects began as the PRC government began building up a "total surveillance state" in the region while detaining one million minorities in re-education camps.
Source: IPVM #Oct29
Read Full Article:
https://ipvm.com/reports/dahua-strong-sanction
China-owned #Dahua Sees Human Rights Sanction as Proof of Technology
On October 15, less than a week after the US sanctioned Dahua and #Hikvision for human rights abuses, Dahua VP Zhu Jiangming told the PRC's National Business Daily:
"The fact that we are under the US control list shows that we indeed have a strong technological capability."
Zhu is executive VP of Dahua, a co-founder of the firm and the executive director of Leap Motor, a PRC electric car startup founded and run by Dahua executives.
Dahua has by far the largest documented presence of any surveillance provider in Xinjiang, having directly won almost $1 billion of surveillance projects with authorities there - significantly higher than Hikvision's ~$300m.
All these massive projects began as the PRC government began building up a "total surveillance state" in the region while detaining one million minorities in re-education camps.
Source: IPVM #Oct29
Read Full Article:
https://ipvm.com/reports/dahua-strong-sanction
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Chinese Facial Recognition Tracking Company Targets Uighurs
According to video surveillance industry platform IPVM, Chinese company Daihua has been developing products to racially profile Uighurs.
Read more:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/26468
China-owned Dahua Sees Human Rights Sanction as Proof of Technology
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/26469
Source: IPVM
https://ipvm.com/reports/dahua-uyghur
#Uyghur #ConcentrationCamp #HumanitarianCrisis #BigData
Chinese Facial Recognition Tracking Company Targets Uighurs
According to video surveillance industry platform IPVM, Chinese company Daihua has been developing products to racially profile Uighurs.
Read more:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/26468
China-owned Dahua Sees Human Rights Sanction as Proof of Technology
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/26469
Source: IPVM
https://ipvm.com/reports/dahua-uyghur
#Uyghur #ConcentrationCamp #HumanitarianCrisis #BigData