Incident 438: Chinese Province Developed System Tracking Journalists and International Students
Description: Henan's provincial government reportedly planned system involving facial recognition cameras connected to regional and national databases specifically to track foreign journalists and international students.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Neusoft developed an AI system deployed by Henan government and Henan Public Security Department, which harmed foreign journalists in Henan and international students in Henan.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
438
Report Count
3
Incident Date
2021-09-17
Editors
Khoa Lam
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
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Security officials in one of China’s largest provinces have commissioned a surveillance system they say they want to use to track journalists and international students among other “suspicious people”, documents reviewed by Reuters showed.
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BEIJING, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Security officials in one of China's largest provinces have commissioned a surveillance system they say they want to use to track journalists and international students among other "suspicious people", documents …
A PRC province awarded a surveillance project that specifies tracking foreign journalists, foreign students, and migrant women, as well as tracking individuals by ethnicity, including Uyghurs. A PRC publicly traded company Neusoft won the p…
Variants
A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.