China All Seeing Eye

The Beginning Since 2006 over 200,000 cameras installed in a single Chinese city, Shenzhen. Cameras appear in public places sometimes disguised as lampposts In next 3 years 2 million more CCTVs expected to be installed in Shenzhen

"Since the surveillance cameras came in, we have seen a very dramatic decrease in crime in Shenzhen."

Chinese Surveillance Camera Market The Chinese surveillance camera market saw revenues of $4.1 billion in 2007, up 24% from 2006

Software One Chinese company has created software for CCTVs that has the ability to alert police when inordinate numbers of people begin to gather in one location

The goal The future is that Chinese citizens will be watched on CCTV, listened to on their cell phones, monitored on digital voice recognition, internet access limited via “The Great Firewall”, and movements tracked via national ID card

The Golden Shield The Golden Shield is the Chinese government attempt to maintain power and complete control over its citizens The gov’t has been documented to have limited internet access of foreign news outlets, block cell phone calls and or text messages

Tibetan Monks Tibetan monks have proclaimed that cameras have been introduced, unwillingly, to prayer rooms and monasteries

Facial Recognition New software, that should be out within a year, will “have to be able to match a face in a 10 million database in one second.” This is the next “big thing” this technology use distance between eyes as a primary identifier, because it is a feature that does not change with age