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SHENZHEN, China-- 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.

Data on the chip will include not just the citizen's name and address but also work history, educational background, religion, ethnicity, police record, medical insurance status and landlord's phone number. Even personal reproductive history will be included, for enforcement of China's controversial "one child" policy. Plans are being studied to add credit histories, subway travel payments and small purchases charged to the card.

Security experts describe China's plans as the world's largest effort to meld cutting-edge computer technology with police work to track the activities of a population and fight crime. But they say the technology can be used to violate civil rights.

The Chinese government has ordered all large cities to apply technology to police work and to issue high-tech residency cards to 150 million people who have moved to a city but not yet acquired permanent residency.....

You only have to worry if you are doing something wrong. It's hard to keep law and order in a big city. This may help to prevent crime. I'm all for preventing crime.

Great, we definitely have to tighten security for the upcoming Olympics. All across the country.

Both sides are right. This is good for security, and bad for civil liberties. In the end, I think most Chinese won't mind.

On the plus side, this means that that's an easier way to track missing people down right?

I thought American companies aren't allow to do business in china if it involves any type of police or detection work.
How did they do that?

American companies are using China has an experiment to test this technology,

Once they've done that they're gonna use it on their own people.

Welcome to the New World Order.

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Britain has this LONG before Shenzhen even considered it

It's not an amerikkkan company, it's an amerikkkan-financed company. There might not be a difference though.

Oh great, just what an unelected authoritarian regime needs....more ways to stalk it`s citizens.