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Myanmar's Junta Rolls Out Chinese Camera Surveillance Systems in More Cities (reuters.com) 27

Myanmar's junta government is installing Chinese-built cameras with facial recognition capabilities in more cities across the country, Reuters reported Monday, citing three people with direct knowledge of the matter. From the report: In tenders to procure and install the security cameras and facial recognition technology, the plans are described as safe city projects aimed at maintaining security and, in some cases, preserving civil peace, said the people who are or have been involved in the projects. Since the February 2021 coup, local authorities have started new camera surveillance projects for at least five cities including Mawlamyine - the country's fourth-largest city, according to information from the three people who asked not to be identified for fear of reprisals by the junta. The new projects are in addition to five cities where camera systems touted as crime prevention measures were either installed or planned by the previous government led by Aung San Suu Kyi, according to the sources and local media.
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Myanmar's Junta Rolls Out Chinese Camera Surveillance Systems in More Cities

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  • China won't bend to popular political fads like the USA where pressure to not help bad actors is possible. China won't care otherwise; not that the USA actually cared almost all the time. The lack of lobbying $ can also drive empty criticism of an industry or corporations in the USA, which have generally protected special status.

    China doesn't have to work like the USA at making companies violate privacy for them; I very much doubt they have an NSA intercepting the shipping products to insert backdoors, Chin

    • Re: (Score:2, Insightful)

      by bussdriver ( 620565 )

      In the USA you'll have multiple corporations invading privacy and handing that off to 3rd party contractors hired by local governments so track your birth control habits or if you are a "sexual deviant" so they can filter you out for exclusion, persecution or investigation. You can't be punished in the past but you can be monitored when new laws apply to you based upon your previously legal behaviors.

      Not to mention completely privately managed violations of freedom such as not even seeing job listings beca

  • This should be considered a crime against humanity by the world.

    It may not be possible to call people to account to it. For now.

    But for the writing to be on the wall, it has to be written on the wall at some point.

    A wise man once said, "A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step."

  • "But , modern democracy has the technology to regiment us beyond anything Ceaser, Totquemada, or Louis XIV dared dream of." from the Boat of a Million Years by Poul Anderson

Basic is a high level languish. APL is a high level anguish.

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