500,000 camera have been purchased by the Chinese government for installation in the Chongqing city over the come three twelvemonth , to keep an eye out for crime , but more significantly political activists . Or so human - rights warriors fuss .
Since the Tiananmen Square incident in 1989 , the US governing has been nonindulgent about US companies sell their product to China and profiting from the area ’s tight laws regarding contestant and censorship - contraveners . But Cisco ’s understood to be on the right side of this law — though it ’s all very grey from where we ’re standing .
even so , the electronic web of camera will cross an area that ’s 25 per cent larger than New York City , totalling around 400 satisfying mi . [ WSJ ]
range reference : Cory Doctorow
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