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Subject: China and increased surveillance Part 2 of 3
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Part 2 of 3 parts of article from the August 12/07 edition of the New
York Times

"But rising fears of terrorism have lessened public hostility to
surveillance cameras in the West. This has been particularly true in
Britain, where the police already install the cameras widely on lamp
poles and in subway stations and are developing face recognition
software as well.

New York police announced last month that they would install more than
100 security cameras to monitor license plates in Lower Manhattan by
the end of the year. Police officials also said they hoped to obtain
financing to establish links to 3,000 public and private cameras in
the area by the end of next year; no decision has been made on whether
face recognition technology has become reliable enough to use without
risk of false arrests.

Shenzhen already has 180,000 indoor and outdoor closed-circuit
television cameras owned by businesses and government agencies, and
the police will have the right to link them on request into the same
system as the 20,000 police cameras, according to China Public
Security.

Some civil rights activists contend that the cameras in China and
Britain are a violation of the right of privacy contained in the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

Large-scale surveillance in China is more threatening than
surveillance in Britain, they said when told of Shenzhen's plans.

'I don't think they are remotely comparable, and even in Britain it's
quite controversial,' said Dinah PoKempner, the general counsel for
Human Rights Watch in New York. China has fewer limits on police
power, fewer restrictions on how government agencies use the
information they gather and fewer legal protections for those
suspected of crime, she noted.

While most countries issue identity cards, and many gather a lot of
information about citizens, China also appears poised to go much
further in putting personal information on identity cards, Ms.
PoKempner added.

Every police officer in Shenzhen now carries global positioning
satellite equipment on his or her belt. This allows senior police
officers to direct their movements on large, high-resolution maps of
the city that China Public Security has produced using software that
runs on the Microsoft Windows operating system.

'We have a very good relationship with U.S. companies like I.B.M.,
Cisco, H.P. Dell,' said Robin Huang, the chief operating officer of
China Public Security. 'All of these U.S. companies work with us to
build our system together.'

The role of American companies in helping Chinese security forces has
periodically been controversial in the United States. Executives from
Yaho, Google, Microsoft and Cisco Systems testified in February 2006
at a Congressional hearing called to review whether they had
deliverately designed their systems to help the Chinese state muzzle
dissidents on the Internet; they denied having done so.

............ "

Concluded in Part 3.
Reg Curtis/VE9RWC
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