China’s All-Seeing Eye

May 19, 2008 | Source: Rolling Stone

China is building a high-tech police state under a massive surveillance and censorship program: “Golden Shield,” linking surveillance cameras, the Internet, phones, facial-recognition software, voice recognition data from phone calls, GPS monitoring, and facial photos into a centralized database for every person in China–1.3 billion faces.

Some 200,000 surveillance cameras have already been installed throughout the city of Shenzhen, with a total of 2 million CCTVs planned, making it the most watched city in the world. It will be connected to a single, nationwide network, an all-seeing eye.