China's Golden Shield

[man4jesus]

Very alarming

Click Here/print (http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/20797485/chinas_allseeing_eye/print)

[zhan]

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China's All-Seeing Eye
With the help of U.S. defense contractors, China is building the prototype for a high-tech police state. It is ready for export.
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The security cameras are just one part of a much broader high-tech surveillance and censorship program known in China as "Golden Shield." The end goal is to use the latest people-tracking technology — thoughtfully supplied by American giants like IBM, Honeywell and General Electric — to create an airtight consumer cocoon: a place where Visa cards, Adidas sneakers, China Mobile cellphones, McDonald's Happy Meals, Tsingtao beer and UPS delivery (to name just a few of the official sponsors of the Beijing Olympics) can be enjoyed under the unblinking eye of the state, without the threat of democracy breaking out. With political unrest on the rise across China, the government hopes to use the surveillance shield to identify and counteract dissent before it explodes into a mass movement like the one that grabbed the world's attention at Tiananmen Square.


Basicly, the new city is being used as a test bed for personal surveillance. Joy Joy.

[stonewallfan]

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Basicly, the new city is being used as a test bed for personal surveillance. Joy Joy.

You know when John saw the things in the future no wonder they scared him. None of the things he foresaw where ever possible until today.

[Maggie]

When you think about it, poor John! It all had to have blown his mind! And we think we have stress.
I really have a soft spot in my heart for John. He was so poetical in his gospel. Jesus evidently loved him, too. He seems so tender-hearted.

[GodIsMyStrength]

From article:

"For Walton, the most chilling moment came when the Defense Department tried to launch a system called Total Information Awareness to build what it called a "virtual, centralized grand database" that would create constantly updated electronic dossiers on every citizen, drawing on banking, credit-card, library and phone records, as well as footage from surveillance cameras. "It was clearly similar to what we were condemning China for," Walton says. Among those aggressively vying to be part of this new security boom was Joseph Atick, now an executive at L-1. The name he chose for his plan to integrate facial-recognition software into a vast security network was uncomfortably close to the surveillance system being constructed in China: "Operation Noble Shield.":faint

and...

"When I leave China, I feel a powerful relief: I have escaped. I am home safe. But the feeling starts to fade as soon as I get to the customs line at JFK, watching hundreds of visitors line up to have their pictures taken and fingers scanned. In the terminal, someone hands me a brochure for "Fly Clear." All I need to do is have my fingerprints and irises scanned, and I can get a Clear card with a biometric chip that will let me sail through security. Later, I look it up: The company providing the technology is L-1.":ohno

this is really scary stuff!

[funmudder]

:faint

[WordyTrees]

When you think about it, poor John! It all had to have blown his mind! And we think we have stress.
I really have a soft spot in my heart for John. He was so poetical in his gospel. Jesus evidently loved him, too. He seems so tender-hearted.

It will be really cool to hear it from John himself someday!

[seekingtruth1]

He did seem so compassionate - i love reading him.....When you think about it, poor John! It all had to have blown his mind! And we think we have stress.
I really have a soft spot in my heart for John. He was so poetical in his gospel. Jesus evidently loved him, too. He seems so tender-hearted.

[seekingtruth1]

think he'll say....."and I was all ... like woah":aha


It will be really cool to hear it from John himself someday!

[denny272]

:thinking Ok, so the whole idea of being watched all the time stinks. But it has occured to me that since this type of business is going to flourish in the near future, maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to invest in L-1?

Any thoughts on if this would be "wrong" or not??? :idunno