China has 2.75 million surveillance cameras installed already. Several of them were used to solve the murder of a female village official in Chengdu. What would the Chinese rather have? Privacy or security? ...full story at ESWN
from ESWN on Sun, Aug 16 2009
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Chips, Surveillance & Privacy
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