Open Chinese database revealed whether 1.8 million women were "Breed Ready"

[midian182]

WTF?! Exposed databases are nothing new, but a recently discovered Chinese dataset containing the information of 1.8 million women featured a sinister-sounding field: “breed ready.” It’s not known who was behind the database or its intention, but some believe it could be a government project related to the country’s falling birth rates.

Security researcher Victor Gevers, who works for the Dutch nonprofit GDI Foundation, made the discovery over the weekend while trying to identify open databases in China.

In addition to names, physical addresses, phone numbers, age, education, and marital status, the database contained a column called “BreedReady,” which used a binary 1 for yes or 0 for no. It’s thought this could be an unflattering translation of whether the woman in question has children, but it’s more likely a reference to whether they are of child-bearing age.

The youngest girl in this database is 15y old. The youngest woman with BreedReady:"1" status is 18y. The average age is a bit above 32y, and the most aged woman with a BR:1 is 39 and with a BR:0 is 95y. All are single [89%], divorced [10%] or widow[1%]. About 82% lives in 北京市. pic.twitter.com/qCP7FvFMB7

— Victor Gevers (@0xDUDE) 9 March 2019

The women in the database range from 15 to 95 in age, while those determined to be “BreedReady” are 18 to 39. 90 percent of the entries were described single and 82 percent were listed as living in Beijing.

Other fields included “political” and “has video,” along with links to some of the women’s Facebook profiles. The social network is banned in China, meaning they could have only created accounts using VPNs or while abroad.

While this database could have come from a hacked dating website, many believe it is the work of the government, which could be tracking fertile women. As noted by the BBC, the number of Chinese women aged 23-30 will drop by 40 percent in the next ten years, and with the country’s birth rate dropping rapidly, the government is trying to encourage more women to have children.

Following its exposure, some Chinese social media users made comparisons between the now-removed database and The Handmaid’s Tale TV show, in which a totalitarian society submits fertile women into child-bearing servitude.

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[Vulcanproject]

Too many people on the planet. Many government solutions to long term economic problems where a large factor is often an aging population is simply: have more people and encourage the birth rate. Never mind when they all get old too, we won't be alive to have to sort out that far worse mess.

Unsustainable cycle leading to civilization collapse being powered along blindly by authorities. Nothing new to see here.

It wouldn't surprise me if this is at least in some way monitored or linked to the Chinese government, if not expressly set up by them to avoid being solely to blame for possible leaks.

 

[QuantumPhysics]

The HEALTH of a government is its live births.

without enough live births, a government will eventually collapse because they won't have enough new citizens to replace the dying. Simple math.

Otherwise, you'll end up being forced to replace them with immigrants and migrant workers.

Teen pregnancy in the US is way down. They don't even discuss teen pregnancy anymore as a problem.

Teen pregnancy is down because of use of condoms and birth control with abortion for a small subset.

China has routinely used the one child policy, birth control and abortion to ensure the birth of healthy males over females and that led to a gender imbalance...bride kidnapping and an aging population (I lived in China from 2001 - 2003 as a business student in Fudan University)

Now that that policy is over, China needs to track its births closely and before they can do that, they need to ensure they have enough fertile women.

Cancer and environmental pressures are causing malformed children and infertility to raise there. The water is basically toxic. The air there is basically toxic. The food, in many cases can't be trusted. This is a natural, logical progression.

 

[dogofwars]

Well what do you expect when the cost of food skyrocket!? You have this problem.

 

[treetops]

I wonder if the Chinese do the same thing and use terms like "Breed Read" when talking about the USA. Here is a link to the USA database.
https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2014/demo/p20-575.pdf

 

[Lew Zealand]

I wonder if the Chinese do the same thing and use terms like "Breed Read" when talking about the USA. Here is a link to the USA database.
https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2014/demo/p20-575.pdf

That was boring. No individual phone numbers, addresses, education, location, ID numbers, marital status, or ”BreedReady" ratings.

 

[Danny101]

Next up, arranged marriages.

 

[Knot Schure]

Next up, arranged marriages.

And forced abortions, until recent.

Don't even get me started on the organ harvesting.

China has much to answer / pay for.