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| China’s All-Seeing Eye                                             |
|   from the market-stalinism dept.                                  |
|   posted by kdawson on Monday June 02, @00:42 (Privacy)            |
|   http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/01/2316219 |
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krou writes “Naomi Klein writes in Rolling Stone Magazine about
[0]China’s Panopticon-like experiment called ‘Golden Shield’ taking place
in Shenzhen using technology supplied by companies such as IBM,
Honeywell, and General Electric. Klein writes: ‘Chinese citizens will be
watched around the clock through networked CCTV cameras and remote
monitoring of computers. They will be listened to on their phone calls,
monitored by digital voice-recognition technologies. Their Internet
access will be aggressively limited through the country’s notorious
system of online controls known as the “Great Firewall.” Their movements
will be tracked through national ID cards with scannable computer chips
and photos that are instantly uploaded to police databases and linked to
their holder’s personal data.’ According to Klein, this is more than just
a Chinese experiment, it’s also one that holds ramifications for America
and elsewhere: ‘…the most efficient delivery system for capitalism is
actually a communist-style police state… The global corporations
currently earning superprofits from this social experiment are unlikely
to be content if the lucrative new market remains confined to cities such
as Shenzhen. Like everything else assembled in China with American parts,
Police State 2.0 is ready for export to a neighborhood near you.’”

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Links:
0. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/20797485/chinas_allseeing_eye/print