How are the attitudes different on the case of HK people tearing down the smart lamp tower (or called surveillance Tower) on Google and Baidu ?

How are the attitudes different on the case of HK people tearing down the smart lamp tower (or called surveillance Tower) on Google and Baidu ?
In which terms are people talking about facial recognition on the most popular social media platforms in U.S. (and other English speaking countries), China, Italy and India ?
Which are the most mentioned potential threats caused by facial recognition on the videos from YouTube and Bilibili?
Which key positions on the facial geometry could be covered by humans based on Instagram users in order to fool the facial recognition system?

On 24th of August 2019, protesters in Hong Kong destroyed a “smart” lamp post over fears that the device was equipped with facial recognition software and was being used for surveillance purposes. HK government stated that the lamp posts do not carry any facial recognition functions and images captured will not be sent to any third-party applications.We designed this protocol in order to find these different opinions.

Main Findings

All the 50 results from Baidu use the word “Thugs” to describe the people who tear down the smart lamp post. Most of the results search by Cantonese on Google describe the people who did it as “ Citizens”or “Protesters”. While all the English search results are using “Citizens” or “Protesters”.

example of finding

All 50 Results from queries “HK + Surveillance”on Baidu were automatically replaced into “HK + Smart”. Half of the Cantonese results from Google states that the lamp has a surveillance aim but they don’t have evidence.

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Protocol

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Data sources

Date of retrieval

Search engine_dataset

31/10/2019