Police State 2.0: currently in beta in China, coming soon to a country near you?

[thewayne]

A VERY long article on how China is blending surveillance technologies, most of it from American countries, and is in the process of producing what could be the most heavily watched populace ever, far more pervasive than anything that Alan Moore and George Orwell could have come up with when they wrote V for Vendetta and 1984 respectively.

I don't see much of a way around it, between the lust for capitalism and the levels of paranoia.

Brave new world, indeed.

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

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/01/2316219


I do have to put one small positive spin on pervasive surveillance. A Manchester rock band, The Get Out Clause, performed in front of 80 different CCTV cameras throughout Manchester, then requested the footage through FOIA requests and edited them together to make their own videos on the cheap.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/1938076/The-Get-Out-Clause%2C-Manchester's-stars-of-CCTV-cameras.html

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/02/002248