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NY TIMES - 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. Data on the chip will include not just the
citizen's name and address but also work history, educational
background, religion, ethnicity, police record, medical insurance status
and landlord's phone number. Even personal reproductive history will be
included, for enforcement of China's controversial "one child" policy.
Plans are being studied to add credit histories, subway travel payments
and small purchases charged to the card.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/12/business/worldbusiness/
12security.html
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NY TIMES - 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. Data on the chip will include not just the
citizen's name and address but also work history, educational
background, religion, ethnicity, police record, medical insurance status
and landlord's phone number. Even personal reproductive history will be
included, for enforcement of China's controversial "one child" policy.
Plans are being studied to add credit histories, subway travel payments
and small purchases charged to the card.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/12/business/worldbusiness/
12security.html
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