Re: [TSCM-L] {1832} China and increased surveillance Part 2 of 3

From: Ken Farrall <kfar..._at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 23:33:38 -0400

http://www.chinamatrix.com/surveillance/

I also recently did an interview with the Australian Broadcasting
Corporation on the same topic.

http://www.chinamatrix.com/files/uschina_surv_abc.mp3

Transcript available at:
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/mediareport/stories/2007/2001547.htm

--
Kenneth Neil Farrall
Annenberg School for Communication
University of Pennsylvania
email: kfar..._at_gmail.com | tel: 215-898-1864
On 8/13/07, reginal..._at_hotmail.com <reginal..._at_hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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Annenberg School for Communication
University of Pennsylvania
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