Chongqing to build world's largest CCTV network
Chongqing plans to build a $2.6 billion security system that will be one of the world's largest with 500,000 surveillance camera. Chongqing police chief Wang Zhijun said the system would be the world's...
View ArticlePublic eye: when cameras turn on you
It has been two months since a camera the police had ostensibly set up to snare speeders caught Deng Jialin, fondling a passenger in his car. Law enforcement officials have yet to explain to the public...
View ArticleWatch Ai Weiwei 24/7
Artist Ai Weiwei has installed webcams into his studio home in a project called 'weiweicam. Now you too can be like the Chinese government. more »Arts & Entertainmentbig brothersurveillanceartai...
View ArticleChinese artist AWW ordered to stop webcam project
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has turned off the four live webcams in his home following orders from the Chinese authorities. He installed the webcams on Tuesday to mark the anniversary of his 81 days of...
View ArticleChina increasing surveillance of hotels?
"Over the past week I've been biking through the Shandong countryside. As is always the case on these trips, the biggest challenge was finding a place to sleep. A hotel has to have special approval to...
View ArticleBo Xilai officials 'wiretapped call to President Hu Jintao'
The New York Times, which cited almost a dozen sources with ties to the Communist party, said the wiretapping was seen as evidence of Bo's overreaching ambition and compounded leaders' mistrust of him....
View ArticlePolice Checks Set Up Across Tibet
Chinese authorities are setting up police surveillance stations and other checkpoints across Tibet to monitor the activities of ordinary citizens and travelers approaching the capital city, Lhasa, in...
View ArticleBeijing may use cameras to monitor gutter oil
The cameras will be installed at oil-water separators or oil separation tanks, forming a real-time surveillance network to cover more than 60,000 restaurants in the city. It will let the city’s...
View ArticleWeChat: the Chinese social media app that has dissidents worried
Chinese activists believe security services are using WeChat to monitor in real time the movements of some of its 200 million subscribers. WeChat's popularity has grown dramatically since its launch in...
View ArticleSkype's Been Hijacked in China, and Microsoft Is O.K. With It
27-year-old computer-science graduate student at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, exposes the inner workings of Skype’s role in China’s online surveillance apparatus. more...
View ArticleNSA whistleblower Edward Snowden escaped to Hongkong
On May 20, he boarded a flight to Hong Kong, where he has remained ever since. He chose the city because "they have a spirited commitment to free speech and the right of political dissent", and because...
View ArticleHuawei issues definitive statement about espionage fears: 'we have never been...
In a new cybersecurity whitepaper issued today by the company, Huawei deputy chairman of the board Ken Hu writes that Huawei has "never been asked to provide access to our technology, or provide any...
View ArticleDrivers in Shanghai are Facing Extreme Surveillance
A street in Shanghai has seen drivers being watched even closer with a wide array of cameras perched above a section of the road. Drivers are faced with an extraordinary amount of cameras and devices,...
View ArticleBig Brother blinded: Security fears in China as smog disrupts surveillance...
Teams of scientists assigned to find a solution as heavy pollution makes national surveillance network useless, raising fear of terror attack. more »China...
View ArticleChina Said to Push Banks to Remove IBM Servers
The Chinese government is pushing domestic banks to remove high-end servers made by IBM and replace them with a local brand, according to people familiar with the matter, in an escalation of the...
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