In Georgia, the day after the adoption of a law prohibiting protesters from covering their faces, they reported the purchase of 30 Chinese Dahua cameras.
Radio Tavisupleba reported that the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs purchased cameras under a simplified contract, paying 85 thousand lari (about 30 thousand dollars).
The department explained the purchase by saying that 115 surveillance cameras were damaged during mass protests, which required their urgent replacement to “fight crime and improve public safety.”
These cameras are capable of recognizing a person’s face, body and emotions, his gender and age, the presence or absence of a mask, license plate numbers, etc.
Such cameras were previously used in Ukraine. As Schem’s investigation found, Dahua cameras transmit information to servers controlled by the Chinese manufacturer (some even when there is no connection), and are also vulnerable to hacker attacks.
The head of the Liberal Democratic League of Ukraine, Artur Kharitonov, suggested that China could share the information received with Russia.
Source: Racurs
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