RE: REAL CCTV on steroids story - and, "at least they're importing something of ours"

[Blanchard_Michael () emc com]

well, at least China's honest and upfront with what they're doing or gunna do with their CCTV system.....  
 
unlike the "free democracies" the rest of us live in....
 
 
  Hmmm... interesting  "....American-financed company to recognize...."   american financed huh?  Could China mearly be 
the pilot program for what they want to do over here in the US?   
 
 
Michael P. Blanchard 
Antivirus / Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE
Office of Information Security & Risk Management 
EMC ² Corporation 
4400 Computer Dr. 
Westboro, MA 01580 

 

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Subject: [funsec] REAL CCTV on steroids story - and,"at least they're importing something of ours"


http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/12/business/worldbusiness/12security.html?ei=5065&en=2d7edb61ed14cb4d&ex=1187496000&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print
 



China Enacting a High-Tech Plan to Track People 

By KEITH BRADSHER 
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/keith_bradsher/index.html?inline=nyt-per> 

SHENZHEN, China, Aug. 9 - At least 20,000 police surveillance cameras are being installed along streets here in 
southern China and will soon be guided by sophisticated computer software from an American-financed company to 
recognize automatically the faces of police suspects and detect unusual activity.

Starting this month in a port neighborhood and then spreading across Shenzhen, a city of 12.4 million people, residency 
cards fitted with powerful computer chips programmed by the same company will be issued to most citizens.


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