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| China’s All-Seeing Eye                                             |
|   from the who-watches-the-watchers dept.                          |
|   posted by Soulskill on Sunday May 18, @13:22 (Privacy)           |
|   http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/18/1630208 |
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[0]Greg Walton brings us a lengthy story from Rolling Stone which
describes [1]China’s comprehensive surveillance project, dubbed [2]Golden
Shield. The ‘[3]Great Firewall of China,’ which we’ve discussed [4]in the
past, is but one aspect of Golden Shield. It also includes national ID
cards, CCTV networks, and face-recognition software. This investigation
showcases just how massive an undertaking it truly is. When finished, it
will dwarf [5]London’s surveillance system. Quoting: “Over the past two
years, some 200,000 surveillance cameras have been installed throughout
the city. Many are in public spaces, disguised as lampposts. The
closed-circuit TV cameras will soon be connected to a single, nationwide
network, an all-seeing system that will be capable of tracking and
identifying anyone who comes within its range — a project driven in part
by U.S. technology and investment. Over the next three years, Chinese
security executives predict they will install as many as 2 million CCTVs
in Shenzhen, which would make it the most watched city in the world.
(Security-crazy London boasts only half a million surveillance cameras.)
… This is the most important element of all: linking all these tools
together in a massive, searchable database of names, photos, residency
information, work history and biometric data. When Golden Shield is
finished, there will be a photo in those databases for every person in
China: 1.3 billion faces.”

Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/05/18/1630208

Links:
0. http://infowar-monitor.net/
1. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/20797485/chinas_allseeing_eye/print
2. http://www.ichrdd.ca/english/commdoc/publications/globalization/goldenShieldEng.html
3. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/27/1957209&tid=153
4. http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/20/0233209&tid=153
5. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/07/1525236&tid=158