Mass surveillance of foreigners in China revealed by abandoned demo dashboard
8 hours ago
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- A web front-end exposes a demo surveillance system for tracking foreigners in China's Zhangjiakou region.
- The system contains real data on foreign journalists, including passport numbers, phone numbers, and photos.
- It tracks detailed personal information like travel data, hotel visits, and even gasoline purchases.
- Features include real-time movement tracking, risk level assignments, and relationship analysis.
- The system integrates diverse data sources, such as ski-pass facial recognition and surveillance cameras.
- It focuses on citizens from 'Five Eyes' countries, suggesting blanket suspicion.
- The platform resembles China's Xueliang project, evolving from video surveillance to holistic profiling.
- Functionality includes generating reports via SQL queries, though still partially implemented.
- The system is unstable and likely abandoned, but offers insight into mass surveillance capabilities.