SurveillanceHigh
Henan Authorities Reportedly Commissioned Facial Recognition System to Track Journalists and International Students
- Occurred
- Sep 17, 2021
- Published
- Nov 29, 2021
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Henan Public Security Department procurement documents reportedly described a surveillance system awarded to Neusoft on September 17, 2021. The planned system would allegedly use about 3,000 facial-recognition cameras linked to regional and national databases to create files and alerts on foreign journalists, international students, and other targeted groups. It could not be confirmed whether the system became operational.
Developers
- Surveillance technology developers
- Neusoft
- Huawei Cloud
- Huawei
- Facial recognition system developers
Deployers
- Henan Public Security Department
- Government of China
- Government of Henan
Harmed parties
- Women and girls
- Women
- Uyghurs
- Students
- Privacy
- Press freedom
- Minority groups
- Migrant women in Henan
- Migrant women in China
- Migrant women
- Journalists
- international students in Henan
- Ethnic minorities in China
- Educational communities
- Biometric data subjects
- Asian people
- Asian women
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Government use of facial recognition to track specific groups constitutes mass monitoring and privacy violation.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8