Big Brother is watching: Chinese city with 2.6m cameras is world's most heavily surveilled

Cities around the world are scaling up their use of surveillance cameras and facial recognition systems – but which ones are watching their citizens most closely?

Qiu Rui, a #policeman in #Chongqing, was on duty this summer when he received an #alert from a #facial #recognition system at a local square. There was a high probability a man caught on camera was a suspect in a 2002 murder case, the system told him.

The city’s #surveillance #system scans facial features of people on the streets from frames of video footage in real time, creating a virtual map of the face. It can then match this information against scanned faces of suspects in a police database. If there is a match that passes a preset threshold, typically 60% or higher, the system immediately notifies officers. Three days later the police captured the man, who eventually admitted that he was the suspect.

Cases such as this, where facial recognition systems are used to help local police crack crime cases, are not unusual in the south-west #China city, which recently ranked first in an #analysis of the world’s most surveilled cities compiled by the UK-based technology research firm Comparitech. With 2.58m cameras covering 15.35 million people – equal to one camera for every six residents – Chongqing has more surveillance cameras than any other city in the world for its population, beating even Beijing, Shanghai and tech hub Shenzhen.

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https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/dec/02/big-brother-is-watching-chinese-city-with-26m-cameras-is-worlds-most-heavily-surveilled

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Suzhou city takes a page from China’s social credit system with Civility Code that rates citizens’ behaviour through a smartphone app

A Chinese city’s plan to score citizens by how “civil” they are has prompted comparisons to Black Mirror and China’s last imperial dynasty.
Authorities in the eastern city of Suzhou, west of Shanghai, introduced a new function designed to measure a person’s civic performance. The new “Sucheng Wenmingma”, which roughly translates as “Suzhou Civility Code”, aims to encourage people to follow traffic rules, take part in voluntary services, sort their trash and do other things that make them model citizens in the eyes of the government. The code is accessed via a smartphone app.

During a brief trial last week, the app actively tracked users’ traffic performance, the Southern Metropolis Daily reported. For each infraction, such as running a red light, 50 points were deducted from the starting total of 1,000 points. A user could gain back lost points by taking part in voluntary traffic management activities.

https://www.scmp.com/abacus/tech/article/3100516/suzhou-city-takes-page-chinas-social-credit-system-civility-code-rates

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Covid passports are how they get the social credit score system the so desperately want.

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Chinese government slashed the amount of time players under the age of 18 can spend on online games to an hour of gameplay on Fridays, weekends and holidays

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-rolls-out-new-rules-minors-online-gaming-xinhua-2021-08-30/


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https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-2019-nCoV-Digital_certificates-vaccination-2021.1

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#Chris #Sky: it’s our civic duty to go out and get fines for covid - we overload the system all fight together united noncompliance

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After throwing them in covid quarantine camps, German government also STRIPS prisoners of compensation payments to bankrupt them

https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-09-25-covid-quarantine-camps-germany-strips-prisoners-compensation.html

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"Vaccine Passport" is simply the "social credit system score" surveillance, like in China

Western acceptance of the deceptively labeled "vaccine passport" will usher in the global enslavement of mankind and allow dictator "state" to decide whether you live or die. Social credit scores are the ultimate method of depopulation.

#id #vaxpass #greenpass #social #credit #system #score #ot

Lin Jinyue, lead designer of #China’s #social #credit #system, extolls its value and his hope for worldwide adoption:

“If you had the social credit system, there would never have been the #Yellow #Vests, we would have detected that before they acted.”

Are you paying attention yet?

#Social #credit #system #uk

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-pilot-to-help-people-eat-better-and-exercise-more

🇮🇱 PM Naftali Bennett:

"We finished developing #Social #Score #System that connects your Covid-19 data with your GPS..."

https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3805426,00.html

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#UK #Boris announced end of mandates, but slided in a #SOCIAL #CREDIT #SYSTEM called CITIZEN DATA SYSTEM without announcing it publicly

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/927547/GOS_The_Future_of_Citizen_Data_Systems_Report__2_.pdf

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Plot: March 12, 2021: "Jack has just come back to his homeland of Australia after over a decade away in paradise. But after being met at the airport by his brother Frank, Jack discovers that the country has radically changed. Citizens report and fine one another for various civil infractions, using their mobile phones to record and upload offenses to a government app.

Jack is in disbelief as he arrives at Frank's home with his wife Margaret, and he can't even believe that swearing is fined and alcohol is banned. There are cameras everywhere, and the only safe place in people's homes is the bathroom. Unable to adapt or accept the changes, Jack attempts to leave the country -- a much harder feat to accomplish than he thought.

Written and directed by Kosta Nikas, this sci-fi short may be named after an ideal paradise of balance and peace, but its title is deeply satirical in how the film portrays the absurdity of the new surveillance state. It constructs a fascinating world that seems only a few steps removed from our phone-saturated society, telling its cautionary tale in an ironically jaunty way.

The writing takes time in its world-building, which is often one of the pleasures of the sci-fi genre. The narrative action at the beginning catalogs the myriad ways that control and order are exerted over people, and there's dour, wry humor embedded in how Frank escorts his increasingly skeptical brother through this brave new world. The bright sunniness of the cinematography and the percolating, cheerful musical score that peppers itself throughout the film also add touches of stylish buoyancy to what is an increasingly dark story.

The aesthetic approach offers a counterpoint to the often horrifying reality shown on screen, in which citizens are incentivized to document one another's offenses through their omnipresent phones. Jack is a stand-in for the audience, looking increasingly askance at how even the most intimate recesses of everyday life can't escape the pitiless lens of a camera and the desperate people wielding them.

It takes some time for the dramatic conflict to emerge, but the world-building is fascinating enough to carry interest through, and is substantial and detailed enough to power an entire series or feature. By the time Jack finally decides that he must escape, the building blocks of the world and story have been carefully laid into place, forming a chain of obstacles that make it harder for him to leave. He seems trapped indefinitely, but then he gets an unexpected chance -- though one that comes at considerable cost.

That cost, however, doesn't seem so bad by the time we conclude "Utopia," which we realize is anything but. Its sense of horror derives not from perversity or violence, but from how the world that the film constructs is only a few clicks from our current reality.

Practically everyone has a smartphone, and the devices are deeply integrated with almost all aspects of our lives, from banking to romance to communication to entertainment. At many levels, we're still reckoning with how mobile technology is transforming our lives and our relationships. A population armed with phones -- and imbued with increasingly knee-jerk punitiveness towards fellow humans -- seems ludicrous, but with deeper reflection, viewers realize those pieces are already in place in other aspects of our culture. Are human beings so weak that they could be weaponized to do a government's surveillance for them? "Utopia" imagines that day isn't as far as one would think."

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