China To Deploy World's Largest People Tracking Network

hackingbear writes "News.com reports that China is building the largest and most sophisticated people-tracking network in the world, all to track citizens in the city of Shenzhen. This network utilizes 20,000 intelligent digital cameras and RFID cards to keep track of the 12.4 million people living in the Southern port city. The key to the system is the new residency cards fitted with powerful computer chips. 'Data on the chip will include not just the citizen's name and address but also work history, educational background, religion, ethnicity, police record, medical insurance status and landlord's phone number. Even personal reproductive history will be included, for enforcement of China's controversial "one child" policy. Plans are being studied to add credit histories, subway travel payments and small purchases charged to the card.' While I lived in Shenzhen, there indeed were (and still are) plenty of crimes. One of my friend who lived at the 20th floor of a condo building in a nice neighborhood saw an intruder in the middle of one night while he was sleeping. Still, this will clearly raise the fear of human rights abuses. And ... 'one of the most startling aspects of this plan is that this project is mostly made possible by an American company with solid venture fundings.'"

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personal reproductive history

[bl8n8r]

"Even personal reproductive history will be included, for enforcement of China's controversial "one child" policy."

This is creepy. In that documentary called China Blue, it was stated by one of the factory owners that most of it's workforce is ignorant and too stupid to think for themselves. They really regard people there as illiterate simpletons. I don't know how well educated the population is, but it's a pretty crappy attitude and kind of epitomizes the human rights problems in China.

I wonder how long the chinese people will put up with this. I wonder how long the rest of the world will put up with it when it comes comes to their back yard under the guise of "Think of the Children" or "War on Terror"

Re:personal reproductive history

[ShieldW0lf]

That's bullshit rhetoric used by those who want to confound the issue. We want them all to breed.

It's a daily affair... you read an article about how there's a crisis, not enough workers, can't let the old retire, need immigrants, but can't let them in cause they'd replace our culture with their own.

Then the same news organization crows triumphantly about the success they've had in combating teenage pregnancy, and what a great thing this is for the world. Because we really need more women with expensive, useless educations to work in insignificant, white collar, middle management jobs.

What a fucking joke.

Incidentally, this was all right there in the actuary tables that the life insurance industry collects all along... governments have been quietly planning for this clusterfuck for at least a decade.

I made the mistake of trying to talk about it at a dinner party 10 years ago, and wow... you wanna talk about a sense of pissed off entitlement... boomers thinking that because they worked all their life and saved for retirement, magic elves were going to sprout up to fetch them food and mow their lawn for them.

Whatever. I'll be at -1 in a moment anyway, and no one will read this.

Re:People Tracking & RFID

[gweihir]

Except that isn't actually true. Right now if I were to call 911 for the fun of it, they wouldn't triangulate, they would use the built in GPS chip to tell them where I am.

This is complete bullshit! There are no GPS chips in cellphones today. Far, far too expensive. Triangulation is what is done and the police does not need to do it, since the cell-towers already need to do it. The police can query that information though.

Re:And how do you know this exactly?

[SIIHP]

"If I had first hand knowledge it would be classified, and posting on slashdot is certainly not worth risking felony conspiracy charges now is it?"

Nice try. You could post AC. So that ridiculous attempt at avoiding providing evidence is garbage.

"Otherwise I'm just making it up"

Well, that part's true at least.

Wow...

[SIIHP]

"That's what they want you to believe ..."

You just said that, and you were totally serious. Holy crap.

You know how you feel when some freak goes on about how aliens anal probed him, well, that's the same feeling you just gave us.

Fuck you mod

[SIIHP]

You pathetic sack.

He's a freak and should be told about it.

If you disagree, be a fucking man and say why, save that modding me down because I'm right shit, thanks.