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Chinese company leaves Muslim-tracking facial recognition database exposed online
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Posted on 02/15/2019 7:09:36 PM PST by ameribbean expat

Search MUST READ: 5G: A transformation in progress Chinese company leaves Muslim-tracking facial recognition database exposed online Researcher finds one of the databases used to track Uyghur Muslim population in Xinjiang.

Catalin Cimpanu By Catalin Cimpanu for Zero Day | February 14, 2019 -- 18:17 GMT (10:17 PST) | Topic: Security

0 SenseNets One of the facial recognition databases that the Chinese government is using to track the Uyghur Muslim population in the Xinjiang region has been left open on the internet for months, a Dutch security researcher told ZDNet.

The database belongs to a Chinese company named SenseNets, which according to its website provides video-based crowd analysis and facial recognition technology.

Yesterday, Victor Gevers, a well-known security researcher that made a name for himself in the past few years by finding leaky MongoDB databases did what he does best and found one of SenseNets' MongoDB databases that had been left exposed online without authentication.

Gevers told ZDNet that the database contained information on 2,565724 users, along with a stream of GPS coordinates that came in at a rapid pace.

The user data wasn't just benign usernames, but highly detailed and highly sensitive information that someone would usually find on an ID card, Gevers said. The researcher saw user profiles with information such as names, ID card numbers, ID card issue date, ID card expiration date, sex, nationality, home addresses, dates of birth, photos, and employer.

For each user, there was also a list of GPS coordinates, locations where that user had been seen.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; erdogan; kurdistan; receptayyiperdogan; turkey; uyghurs; xinjiang

1 posted on 02/15/2019 7:09:36 PM PST by ameribbean expat
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To: ameribbean expat

Seems I upset someone with my post.


3 posted on 02/15/2019 7:44:07 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: Deaf Smith

Saye do what?


4 posted on 02/15/2019 8:14:55 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET
Some Snowflake

They were Chinese or muslim.

I will not be PC to either.

5 posted on 02/15/2019 8:30:52 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: ameribbean expat

How can the Red Chinese use “facial recognition” on fellow Chinese? Don’t they know that “they all look alike”.

Maybe that is why they just torture and kill them, just to be sure they got the right ones.


6 posted on 02/15/2019 10:30:29 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (with)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

“They all look alike”


There were some reports a year ago about Apple’s facial recognition not working properly in China because it failed to distinguish between family members.


7 posted on 02/16/2019 5:13:09 AM PST by captain_dave
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