Dahua facial recognition cameras in the Mexican state of Coahuila

About 300 Dahua surveillance cameras with facial recognition capacity were installed in cities in the state of Coahuila, in northern Mexico. Currently the database uses so called 'exception lists' ('black' lists for criminals and 'white' lists for missing people) made by the secretary of public security of Coahuila and is operated at the municipal level. Information is shared with security authorities at the state and federal level. There is interest on the part of the authorities to use federal databases in the identification process, including data on people prosecuted for a crime and security officials, as well as the electoral national database, which contains records of about 90 million people. The last official information on the use of these cameras is that they are still on 'pilot' phase. Dahua CEO also donated thermal cameras to the state of Coahuila in 2020.

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Product Deployed	Unknown Products 0122
Institutions ⠉	Dahua Technologies
Datasets	Unknown Dataset 0192
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Status and Events:

Status	Planned
Events	Trial phase (11 November 2020, Documented, , For now, the camera network is in a "test state" and is not yet operating at full power. This was recognized by the director of the C4 platform, Luis Campos, who was called to supervise its implementation after a long career designing technology projects applied to different areas of government. “We are in the testing stage, but already functional, already in practical tests,” Campos said in an interview.)
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Managed by	C4 Secretaría de Seguridad Pública del Gobierno de Coahuila
Used by	C4

Location:

City	Coahuila
Country ⠉	Mexico

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Dahua facial recognition cameras in the Mexican state of Coahuila
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Deployment Status	Planned
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Events	* uses Record type Property:Has event Trial phase (11 November 2020, Documented, , For now, the camera network is in a "test state" and is not yet operating at full power. This was recognized by the director of the C4 platform, Luis Campos, who was called to supervise its implementation after a long career designing technology projects applied to different areas of government. “We are in the testing stage, but already functional, already in practical tests,” Campos said in an interview.)
City	Coahuila
Country	Mexico
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Information Certainty	Documented
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Datasets Used	Unknown Dataset 0192
Deployment Type	Surveillance
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managed by	C4, Secretaría de Seguridad Pública del Gobierno de Coahuila
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Summary	About 300 Dahua surveillance cameras with facial recognition capacity were installed in cities in the state of Coahuila, in northern Mexico. Currently the database uses so called 'exception lists' ('black' lists for criminals and 'white' lists for missing people) made by the secretary of public security of Coahuila and is operated at the municipal level. Information is shared with security authorities at the state and federal level. There is interest on the part of the authorities to use federal databases in the identification process, including data on people prosecuted for a crime and security officials, as well as the electoral national database, which contains records of about 90 million people. The last official information on the use of these cameras is that they are still on 'pilot' phase. Dahua CEO also donated thermal cameras to the state of Coahuila in 2020.