REAL CCTV on steroids story - and, "at least they're importing something of ours"

["Brian Loe" <knobdy () gmail com>]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/12/business/worldbusiness/12security.html?ei=5065&en=2d7edb61ed14cb4d&ex=1187496000&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print

China Enacting a High-Tech Plan to Track People  By KEITH
BRADSHER<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/keith_bradsher/index.html?inline=nyt-per>

SHENZHEN, China, Aug. 9 — At least 20,000 police surveillance cameras are
being installed along streets here in southern China and will soon be guided
by sophisticated computer software from an American-financed company to
recognize automatically the faces of police suspects and detect unusual
activity.

Starting this month in a port neighborhood and then spreading across
Shenzhen, a city of 12.4 million people, residency cards fitted with
powerful computer chips programmed by the same company will be issued to
most citizens.

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