{"id":8451,"date":"2022-12-29T08:37:27","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T07:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/29\/police-in-china-can-track-protests-by-enabling-alarms-on-hikvision-software\/"},"modified":"2022-12-29T08:37:27","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T07:37:27","slug":"police-in-china-can-track-protests-by-enabling-alarms-on-hikvision-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/29\/police-in-china-can-track-protests-by-enabling-alarms-on-hikvision-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Police in China can track protests by enabling \u2018alarms\u2019 on Hikvision software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese surveillance manufacturer Hikvision has put in place tools to help police track protest activities<\/p>\n<p>Chinese police can set up \u201calarms\u201d for various protest activities using a software platform provided by Hikvision, a major Chinese camera and surveillance manufacturer, the Guardian has learned. Descriptions of protest activity listed among the \u201calarms\u201d include \u201cgathering crowds to disrupt order in public places\u201d, \u201cunlawful assembly, procession, demonstration\u201d and threats to \u201cpetition\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>These activities are listed alongside offenses such as \u201cgambling\u201d or disruptive events such as \u201cfire hazard\u201d in technical documents available on Hikvision\u2019s website and flagged to the Guardian by surveillance research firm IPVM, or Internet Protocol Video Market. The company\u2019s website also included alarms for \u201creligion\u201d and \u201cFalun Gong\u201d \u2013 a spiritual movement banned in China and categorized as a cult by the government \u2013 until IPVM contacted the company. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/29\/china-surveillance-protests-alarms-cameras-hikvision\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/4224b72d0cd9881a2cc0c5908186b645a494c1dc\/0_126_3500_2101\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=4a8774d938232822e1dc068396ffb1cd\" title=\"Police in China can track protests by enabling \u2018alarms\u2019 on Hikvision software\" \/>Chinese surveillance manufacturer Hikvision has put in place tools to help police track protest activities<br \/>\nChinese police can set up \u201calarms\u201d for various protest activities using a software platform provided by Hikvision, a major Chinese camera and surveillance manufacturer, the Guardian has learned. Descriptions of protest activity listed among the \u201calarms\u201d include \u201cgathering crowds to disrupt order in public places\u201d, \u201cunlawful assembly, procession, demonstration\u201d and threats to \u201cpetition\u201d.<br \/>\nThese activities are listed alongside offenses such as \u201cgambling\u201d or disruptive events such as \u201cfire hazard\u201d in technical documents available on Hikvision\u2019s website and flagged to the Guardian by surveillance research firm IPVM, or Internet Protocol Video Market. The company\u2019s website also included alarms for \u201creligion\u201d and \u201cFalun Gong\u201d \u2013 a spiritual movement banned in China and categorized as a cult by the government \u2013 until IPVM contacted the company.  Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese surveillance manufacturer Hikvision has put in place tools to help police track protest activities Chinese police can set up \u201calarms\u201d for various protest activities using a software platform provided by Hikvision, a major Chinese camera and surveillance manufacturer, the Guardian has learned. Descriptions of protest activity listed among the \u201calarms\u201d include \u201cgathering crowds to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/29\/police-in-china-can-track-protests-by-enabling-alarms-on-hikvision-software\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Police in China can track protests by enabling \u2018alarms\u2019 on Hikvision software<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8451"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}