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Chin, The Surveillance State

How might the Chinese people think about their surveillance state which consists of closed-circuit television, bugged taxi cabs, monitored telecommunications, etc? ...full story at ESWN

from ESWN on Mon, Aug 11 2008

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20 Jul 08 visit Big Brother arrives (with a little help from the US)  »  Shanghaiist 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...
29 Jan 08 visit China: Mobile Surveillance Shock?  »  Global Voices Imagethief comments on the xenophobic news report of mobile surveillance in China and suggests the Chinese side to choose their words wiser.
07 Apr 07 visit China Stages Regular Marine Surveillance on East China Sea  »  china.org.cn China's marine surveillance forces identified several US military vessels that were caught carrying out geological and topographical surveys in waters under Chinese jurisdiction last year.
29 Feb 08 visit links for 2008-02-29  »  RConversation Bush Calls Surveillance Bill an ‘Urgent Priority’ - New York Times "Using some of his toughest language in weeks, President Bush prodded Congress on Thursday to pass his preferred version of surveillance legislation, asserting that every day of d...
21 Aug 08 visit links for 2008-08-21  »  RConversation Surveillance made easy - tech - 20 August 2008 - New Scientist Tech "Governments around the world are developing increasingly sophisticated electronic surveillance methods in a bid to identify terrorist cells or spot criminal activity." (tags:...

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