With the help of U.S. defense contractors, an estimated 2 million closed circuit tv-cameras or CCTVs for short (oh the irony) will be installed over the next three years in Shenzhen. The surveillance experiment is part of the heroically named Golden... ...full story at Shanghaiist
from Shanghaiist on Sun, Jul 20 2008
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