I just learned this - Moscow, St Petersburg, several Chinese cities, several Indian cities, Seoul, Singapore, London, Dhaka, New York, and Los Angeles have intense surveillance systems

[Gepetto 1,288]

 

It's like George Orwell's 1984 already happening for real

https://www.comparitech.com/vpn-privacy/the-worlds-most-surveilled-cities/

Cities in China are under the heaviest CCTV surveillance in the world, according to a new analysis by Comparitech. But globally, many more cities are under increasing amounts of surveillance.

In 2019, IHS Markit predicted that there would be 1 billion surveillance cameras worldwide by the end of 2021. In 2017, it also suggested China would have 626 million cameras within three years, which is further supported by reports that the country has around 600 million cameras within its Skynet project.

Based on a population of 1.43 billion (using the most recent UN estimate), IHS Markit’s figure of 626 million cameras means there are 439.07 cameras per 1,000 people in China. That’s almost one camera for every two people.

This year, we have used this ratio to create estimated CCTV camera figures per Chinese city. Due to wildly different estimates and old figures, this seemed the most accurate and fairest way to try and gauge the sheer volume of camera figures in China.

While China yet again dominates this study for its vast surveillance tactics, there are other countries whose surveillance tactics are of growing concern, including several Indian and Russian cities, Seoul, Singapore, London, Dhaka, New York, and Los Angeles.

• Hyderabad, Indore, Delhi, Singapore, Moscow, Baghdad, Seoul, St. Petersburg, London, and Los Angeles are the top 10 most surveilled cities outside of China (based on the number of cameras per 1,000 people)
• Delhi, Seoul, Singapore, Hyderabad, New York, Moscow, London, Chennai, Mumbai, and Dhaka are the top 10 most surveilled cities outside of China (based on the number of cameras per square mile)
• At the end of 2021, over one billion surveillance cameras are estimated to have been installed worldwide, according to IHS Markit’s latest report
• We found little correlation between the number of public CCTV cameras and crime or safety

 

https://www.wired.com/story/moscow-safe-city-ntechlab/#:~:text=Across Russia%2C there are an,number of connected surveillance cameras.

The Russian capital is now the seventh-most-surveilled city in the world. Across Russia, there are an estimated 21 million surveillance cameras, and the country ranks among the top in the world in terms of the number of connected surveillance cameras. The system created by Moscow’s government, dubbed Safe City, was touted by city officials as a way to streamline its public safety systems. In recent years, however, its 217,000 surveillance cameras, designed to catch criminals and terrorists, have been turned against protestors, political rivals, and journalists. 

“Facial recognition was supposed to be the ‘cherry on top,’ the reason why all of this was built,” says a former employee of NTechLab, one of the principal companies building Safe City’s face recognition system.

Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Safe City’s data collection practices have become increasingly opaque. The project is now seen as a tool of rising digital repression as Russia wages war against Ukraine and dissenting voices within its own borders. It is an example of the danger smart city technologies pose. And for the engineers and programmers who built such systems, its transformation into a tool of oppression has led to a moment of reckoning. 

[weepaws 3,153]

I’m sorry, but this isn’t new news.  I’m sorry that you didn’t know. 

[Gepetto 1,288]

I did know there were some cameras in major cities but never realized the sheer number was so high.

[jonmx 2,424]

Next you will tell us you don't know they are monitoring and logging all our internet activity, location, and financial transactions.  You can't even fart in private anymore.  

[posty 2,612]

New York, London, Paris, Munich
Everybody talk about pop muzik

[JustinCharge 2,397]

the KGB ran an intense spy network on Russia's own citizens in the USSR, but like every other government program, after 70 years the government just stopped caring and the mafia ran a thriving black market and eventually went legit when the socialist scheme collapsed.

[seafoam1 2,799]

2 hours ago, weepaws said:

I’m sorry, but this isn’t new news.  I’m sorry that you didn’t know. 

Idiot.

[frank 2,276]

 

[EternalShinyAndChrome 3,832]

4 hours ago, jonmx said:

Next you will tell us you don't know they are monitoring and logging all our internet activity, location, and financial transactions.  You can't even fart in private anymore.  

WTF?  Seriously?????

[wiffleball 4,788]

Singapore is insane. 

 

What a lot of people don't understand or appreciate is that while cameras are so ubiquitous we barely think about them, if that particular camera has even a small hole next to it? Employers are listening to every word you say. Whether is legal or not, it is rampant. 

[seafoam1 2,799]

21 minutes ago, wiffleball said:

Singapore is insane. 

 

What a lot of people don't understand or appreciate is that while cameras are so ubiquitous we barely think about them, if that particular camera has even a small hole next to it? Employers are listening to every word you say. Whether is legal or not, it is rampant. 

Not my company. They would have fired me 15 years ago.

[jonmx 2,424]

2 hours ago, EternalShinyAndChrome said:

WTF?  Seriously?????

How do you think they tracked down so many of the Jan 6th people.  They looked at every financial transaction which occurred so they knew everyone who was in the DC area who ran their credit card.  Snowden exposed how the NSA can spy on anyone at anytime.  You seriously think they stopped doing that?  The feds don't give one crap about privacy.   They pull every trick in the book and many of them aren't legal.  

[Engorgeous George 2,125]

Does facial recognition even work in China?