According to media reports, a database with 800 million records, including photographs of faces and license plates, was openly available on the Internet till August. The data came from surveillance cameras from Chinese manufacturer Jinai Electronics. Manufacturer’s systems are intended to provide access control for people and vehicles, for example at workplaces, multi-storey car parks, schools or construction sites. as TechCrunch told, the company not only wants to implement access control with it, but also enable monitoring of employee attendance, for example for payroll purposes. On the other hand, cloud systems should enable car park operators to scan license plates,…