> Police who are on duty, for example, will be able to report events or incidents as a “503” event – the code that corresponds with “gathering crowds to disrupt order in public places” – which could then trigger an alarm in the system for the rest of the police department, according to Charles Rollet, an IPVM researcher. That would also be the case for the “Falun Gong” alarm.
Um, I was taken in by the "Hikvision" name maybe, but how is this different from the old dispatcher communications model? Where is the dystopian tech?
I thought they were going to say it could recognize this protest stuff via patterns, like patterns of the different crowd activity types, in software...
“The company has previously come under fire for developing the capabilities to detect Uyghurs and other minorities. In 2018, it won a contract to install facial recognition systems at the entrance of 967 mosques as well as re-education camps where Uyghurs and many members of other ethnic minorities have been detained”
Um, I was taken in by the "Hikvision" name maybe, but how is this different from the old dispatcher communications model? Where is the dystopian tech?
I thought they were going to say it could recognize this protest stuff via patterns, like patterns of the different crowd activity types, in software...