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Re:China's Xinjiang surveillance is the dystopian future nob... by chaostheory on Thursday February 22, 2018 @05:43PM (#16442235)
With the UK, this is already well known. They have about a camera per 14 people give or take. Post 9-11, in the US it's also spread. Typically it's in really crime-ridden areas where law and order is barely sustainable (yes these exist). The only one I can't comment much on is Russia. Given that they essentially have a dictatorship, I wouldn't be surprised if they had a big program as well.

imo the state of the art surveillance isn't in China. It's either in the Middle East (especially in Dubai) or Singapore.

This happened a few years back: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/an-eye-for-an-eye-...

(I used to work in the video imaging industry.)

The OP of this thread is missing the point of the article though. They can call themselves Liberals, Conservatives, Communist Party Members, Nationalists or whatever, but only the elites want mass surveillance and really no one else

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Re:China's Xinjiang surveillance is the dystopian future nob... by dictum on Thursday February 22, 2018 @06:01PM (#16442381)
Russia pretty much wrote the hypothetical NSA worst-case into law: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarovaya_law

> Most of the act's amendments came into effect on 20 July 2016. Amendments that require telecom operators to store recordings of phone conversations, text messages and users' internet traffic up to 6 months were announced to come into place on 1 July 2018; however, senator Anton Belyakov has submitted a proposal to move the regulations' start date to 2023, because of the extreme amount of data storage technology needed to make fulfilling the requirements possible.

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Re:China's Xinjiang surveillance is the dystopian future nob... by binaryriviera on Friday February 23, 2018 @04:26AM (#16445208)
Aren't most of the cameras in the UK private as well? Obviously that doesn't mean much but it is different to places like china in that way.
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Re:China's Xinjiang surveillance is the dystopian future nob... by namelost on Thursday February 22, 2018 @07:16PM (#16442920)
On the plus side, there is no law against face coverings in the UK. You can legally walk along the street wearing a guy falkes mask, motorcycle helmet or niqab. Nor is there any requirement to carry ID.
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Re:China's Xinjiang surveillance is the dystopian future nob... by brokenmachine on Thursday February 22, 2018 @10:56PM (#16444086)
Thank god for that. I can wear my spiderman costume. How lovely to live in such a free country!! /s
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