An internet expert says he has uncovered an open database in China that details the personal information of more than 1.8 million women, as well as something called their \u201cBreedReady\u201d status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Victor Gevers, a Dutch researcher with nonprofit GDI.Foundation, tweeted his findings over the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to his research, the database stored women\u2019s names, ages and marital status, among other particulars. The youngest member of the database was listed at 15 years old, while the average age was around 32. More than 80% of the women included appear to live in China\u2019s capital, Beijing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the screenshot Gevers posted, a field called \u201cBreedReady\u201d is last on the list, which also includes columns for \u201cpolitics\u201d and \u201ceducation\u201d. It\u2019s unclear what the \u201cBreedReady\u201d term indicates, though Chinese netizens were quick to draw comparisons to the country\u2019s panic over the plummeting birthrate and aging population<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the screenshot Gevers posted, a field called \u201cBreedReady\u201d is last on the list, which also includes columns for \u201cpolitics\u201d and \u201ceducation\u201d. It\u2019s unclear what the \u201cBreedReady\u201d term indicates, though Chinese netizens were quick to draw comparisons to the country\u2019s panic over the plummeting birthrate and\u00a0aging population<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the Chinese social network Weibo, users\u00a0called<\/a>\u00a0the database a \u201creal-life Handmaid\u2019s Tale,\u201d likening it to Margaret Atwood\u2019s dystopian novel. Others\u00a0called it<\/a>\u00a0\u201chorrible and absurd\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n China\u2019s declining population has been recognized as an official problem by the government, which in 2015 ended<\/a> its one-child family planning policy. But the reforms have not made much of a dent in China\u2019s looming demographic predicament, with the country expected to soon enter an \u201cera of negative population growth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gevers told TIME that the database of women was taken offline on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAt this moment we have no idea who the owner of the data is,\u201d Gevers said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is also unclear who the women are. \u201cWe are looking to contact a few persons to see if we can figure out if they signed up for something,\u201d Gevers added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n State media has not responded to the public database revelation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cTo be honest I hope it was just poor English of the developer,\u201d Gevers said of the \u201cBreedReady\u201d terminology. \u201cBut we simply do not know this for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n SOURCE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An internet expert says he has uncovered an open database in China that details the personal information of more than 1.8 million women, as well as something called their \u201cBreedReady\u201d status. Victor Gevers, a Dutch researcher with nonprofit GDI.Foundation, tweeted his findings over the weekend. According to his research, the database stored women\u2019s names, ages and marital status, among other… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,154,155,156,146],"class_list":["post-3252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-china","tag-database","tag-dutch","tag-gdi","tag-prc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3253,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252\/revisions\/3253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}