A Billion Surveillance Cameras Forecast To Be Watching Within Two Years (wsj.com) 40
As governments and companies invest more in security networks, hundreds of millions more surveillance cameras will be watching the world in 2021, mostly in China, according to a new report. From a report: The report, from industry researcher IHS Market, to be released Thursday, said the number of cameras used for surveillance would climb above 1 billion by the end of 2021. That would represent an almost 30% increase from the 770 million cameras today. China would continue to account for a little over half the total. Fast-growing, populous nations such as India, Brazil and Indonesia would also help drive growth in the sector, the report said. IHS analyst Oliver Philippou said government programs to implement widespread video surveillance to monitor the public would be the biggest catalyst for the growth in China. City surveillance also was driving demand elsewhere.
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Ah yes, "lower criiiiiime!" The mating call of the authoritarian cowards.
Have you moved to China yet?
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Violent crime has been dopping long before we started being spied on every moment of our lives by our betters in government.
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If you don't agree with unlimited surveillance, you should be shot?
You are the problem. You getting caught on camera doing something psychotic is inevitable. But, it would happen anyway, without them.
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But asshole, the violence of society has to be dealt with also. If you are so fucking stupid that you can't understand that simple fact.
We're talking about China here. They've forcing people into concentration camps based on ethnicity/religion. I'll gladly accept some crime, even horrendous crime like drive by shootings, if it means not becoming the kind of totalitarian hell hole that rounds up its own citizens en mass for no crime other than being a particular religion.
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We're talking about China here. They've forcing people into concentration camps based on ethnicity/religion. I'll gladly accept some crime, even horrendous crime like drive by shootings, if it means not becoming the kind of totalitarian hell hole that rounds up its own citizens en mass for no crime other than being a particular religion.
And then they harvest their organs.
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Interesting numbers on the per-capita point:
The U.S. has approximately 15.3 cameras for every 100 individuals, followed by China with approximately 14.4 and the U.K. with 7.5.
So, China and the U.K. seem to be following the US lead...
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In china especially the crime of having your own opinion. Anyone who is not of the proper kind of thought will have his Social Credit Score reduced and be subject to reconditioning so as to have a positive influence on society.
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"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - B Franklin
I think that the heavy lifting is determining if going undetected in a public place is, in fact, an essential Liberty
Probably not
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“Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” ~Frederick Douglass
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"I think we agree, the past is over." ~ George Bush
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"I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office."~ George Bush
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riiiight
No privacy, sure may reduce crime to an extent, it will never eliminate it, but you have no privacy. Sorry, I'd rather murders still happen and have privacy than lose all my privacy. No I don't have anything to hide, I just want to have comfort in knowing I'm not being watched all the time, period end of story.
Sorry man, but crime has been lowering in civilized societies long before mass surveillance. There is little to no need for it. Just desire by the people in power to keep their fear monger
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Outrageous! (Score:2)
This is outrageous. Someone should do something.
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This is outrageous.
Yes, outrageous indeed. There are about 8 billion people on the planet, and only 1 billion cameras to watch them. For a comparison, the former East German secret police, the Stasi, had about 1 spy for every 10 people. This includes the so-called "informal employees"; "informants".
Someone should do something.
For full coverage, everyone on the planet should be required to wear a body-cam at all times. Only then could we achieve whatever we are trying to achieve with all this surveillance.
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Maybe people could carry mobile cameras around WITH them. That way we can have full coverage. Nah, that will never work. You could never convince people to carry around spy devices.
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Synergistic data (Score:2)
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Billion Surveillance Cameras Forecast To Be Watching Within Two Years
A billion seems a bit much just to keep tabs on me. A few dozen should suffice. Please just keep them out of the bathroom, neither you or I care to see that stuff.
Future labor force (Score:3)
It seems like in the future most people will have a job associated with maintaining video surveillance. Either manufacturing the technology behind it (cameras, storage, networking), installing it, repairing it, or monitoring it.
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I mean it's kind of the upshot of an overpopulated society where inequality and automation reign supreme.
I figure the automation won't make everyone unemployed -- they'll try that, but the crime and chaos will be uncontrollable. So they'll just employee a big part of the population in the surveillance state, with enough lumpen proletariat left unemployed to justify the surveillance.
I'm kind of kidding, but kind of not because I think we are headed to a weird subsistence economy where people really are stuc
Nobody will will need to monitor the cameras (Score:2)
That is an AI's job. With facial recognition, and linking them to mobile phone data, they know who is where when. China recently insisted upon photos for all mobile phone owners.
An AI can also monitor body language pretty well, and notice who is talking to who. Not quite there yet, maybe another 5 years, and then quickly rolled out now that the cameras are in place.
Voice recognition is already pretty good, so automated surveillance of every phone call made is now easily possible.
Then that all goes into t
before you hit the enter key (Score:2)
You might want to backspace a few times and correct that grammar. We are watching you.
Inevitable (Score:2)
Our society can choose to adapt to this. A lot of victimless crimes will need to be decriminalized or we're going to enter