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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.

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Alleged: 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
Applied Taxonomies
MIT

MIT Taxonomy Classifications

Machine-Classified
Taxonomy Details

Risk Subdomain

A further 23 subdomains create an accessible and understandable classification of hazards and harms associated with AI
 

2.1. Compromise of privacy by obtaining, leaking or correctly inferring sensitive information

Risk Domain

The Domain Taxonomy of AI Risks classifies risks into seven AI risk domains: (1) Discrimination & toxicity, (2) Privacy & security, (3) Misinformation, (4) Malicious actors & misuse, (5) Human-computer interaction, (6) Socioeconomic & environmental harms, and (7) AI system safety, failures & limitations.
 
  1. Privacy & Security

Entity

Which, if any, entity is presented as the main cause of the risk
 

Human

Timing

The stage in the AI lifecycle at which the risk is presented as occurring
 

Pre-deployment

Intent

Whether the risk is presented as occurring as an expected or unexpected outcome from pursuing a goal
 

Intentional

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EXCLUSIVE Chinese province targets journalists, foreign students with planned new surveillance system
EXCLUSIVE Chinese province targets journalists, foreign students with planned new surveillance system

EXCLUSIVE Chinese province targets journalists, foreign students with planned new surveillance system

reuters.com

Punishing Journalists PRC Province's Latest Mass Surveillance Project, Won by Neusoft Powered By Huawei

Punishing Journalists PRC Province's Latest Mass Surveillance Project, Won by Neusoft Powered By Huawei

ipvm.com

Chinese province targets journalists and students in planned surveillance system

Chinese province targets journalists and students in planned surveillance system

theguardian.com

EXCLUSIVE Chinese province targets journalists, foreign students with planned new surveillance system
reuters.com · 2021

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 …

Punishing Journalists PRC Province's Latest Mass Surveillance Project, Won by Neusoft Powered By Huawei
ipvm.com · 2021

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…

Chinese province targets journalists and students in planned surveillance system
theguardian.com · 2021

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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