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Final part of article on China's surveillance industry from The New
York Times.

Part 3 of 3 Parts

"China Security and Surveillance is involved in some of the most
controversial areas of public security. Mr. Yap said on the conference
call with Wall Street analysts and hedge fund managers in August that
one of the company's growth areas involved surveillance systems for
Internet cafes; the government is trying to clamp down on users of the
cafes in order to discourage pornography and prostitution.

Critics say the surveillance is aimed at catching democracy advocates,
Falun Gong adherents and others the Communist Party regards as
threatening, noting that rules for nightclubs are less rigorous, and
do not require live feeds to police stations.

Mr. Yap said investment firms from Europe, the United States and Asia
were so enthused about the surveillance market in China that he
typically led a full-day tour each week to some of the company's
factories and installations.

At an aging Shenzhen police station, where the scuffed and peeling
yellow walls look as though they have not been painted since the
Cultural Revolution, a $100,000 bank of new video screens behind the
duty officer's desk shows scenes from nearby streets. In another
neighbourhood, the company has installed a $1 million system.

Many of the surveillance cameras are still assembled at a modest
factory. But the company has used $20 million of the cash it has
raised in the United States to acquire a large industrial park with
six just-completed factory buildings and six dormatories.

In Shenzhen, white poles resembling street lights now line the roads
every block or two, ready to be fitted with cameras. In a nondescript
building linked to nearby street cameras, a desktop computer displayed
streaming video images from outside and drew a green square around
each face to check it against a 'blacklist.' Since China lacks
national or even regional digitized databases of troublemakers'
photos, Mr. Yap said municipal or neighbourhood officials compile
their own blacklists.

To show off his system, Mr. Yap strode across a nearby plaza flanked
by apartment towers and a low-rise shopping area, pointing out tiny
unobtrusive domes and tubes attached to various poles. 'See, there's a
camera on the lamp pole, another one over there and another one here,'
he said. 'Big Brother is watching you.'"

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The end of Part 3 of 3 Parts

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