Police in China can track protests by enabling ‘alarms’ on Hikvision software

> Police who are on duty, for example, will be able to report events or incidents as a “503” event – the code that corresponds with “gathering crowds to disrupt order in public places” – which could then trigger an alarm in the system for the rest of the police department, according to Charles Rollet, an IPVM researcher. That would also be the case for the “Falun Gong” alarm.

Um, I was taken in by the "Hikvision" name maybe, but how is this different from the old dispatcher communications model? Where is the dystopian tech?

I thought they were going to say it could recognize this protest stuff via patterns, like patterns of the different crowd activity types, in software...