Radio Free Asia -By 2020, China will have completed its nationwide facial recognition and
surveillance network, achieving near-total surveillance of urban
residents, including in their homes via smart TVs and smartphones.
According to the official Legal Daily
newspaper, the 13th Five Year Plan requires 100 percent surveillance
and facial recognition coverage and total unification of its existing
databases across the country.
Authorities in the southwestern
province of Sichuan reported in December that they had completed the
installation of more than 40,000 surveillance cameras across more than
14,000 villages as part of the "Sharp Eyes" nationwide surveillance
network, the paper said.
Guangdong-based Bell New Vision Co. is
developing the nationwide "Sharp Eyes" platform that can link up public
surveillance cameras and those installed in smart devices in the home,
to a nationwide network for viewing in real time by anyone who is given
access.
2 comments:
And shortly after that, it will be deployed in the USA, too.
I am guessing that they use the device's own camera to spy, that would be the most convenient. Would it work to stick electrical tape over the phone's camera lenses before putting the battery in new phones to hinder their spying from the start?
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