it says in that article that there's 500,000 cameras in london; the chinese want 2 million in Shenzhen (the special economic zone where china first implemented controlled capitalism) in 3 years time, which says it all about where they're headingMr Hyde wrote:Londoners are on surveilance cameras more than any other people in the world ...about 300 times a day aparrently
again in that articles there's a quote from an ex-US military intelligence office who is now working out in who says that china's advances "scare the hell out him" becauseMr Hyde wrote:what happens when governments get all of this power and decide to change laws?
it really is worrying to think that when we're looking at china we aren't just looking at a totalitarian police state a la 1984 but we could quite easily be looking at our own future"I can guarantee you that there are people in the Bush administration who are studying the use of surveillance technologies being developed here and have at least skeletal plans to implement them at home," he says. "We can already see it in New York with CCTV cameras. Once you have the cameras in place, you have the infrastructure for a powerful tracking system. I'm worried about what this will mean if the U.S. government goes totalitarian and starts employing these technologies more than they are already. I'm worried about the threat this poses to American democracy."
