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Ecuador is Fighting Crime Using Chinese Surveillance Technology (scmp.com)
Ecuador has introduced a security system using monitoring technology from China, including facial recognition, as it tries to bring down its crime rate and improve emergency management, according to state-run Xinhua news agency. From a report: A network of cameras has been installed across the South American nation's 24 provinces -- keeping watch on its population of 16.4 million people -- using a system known as the ECU911 Integrated Security Service, Xinhua reported. Used by the country's police, armed forces and fire brigade, it went into operation in November 2016 and has an emergency response and monitoring system.
People are trying to get to Julian Assange.
My church took in three children that Communist rebels crippled in Colombia near the Ecuador border. Itâ(TM)s sad how the Communists hurt children.
real communists wouldn't do that. that sounds more like something the us army would do.
is a special, highly-guarded gorilla detection algorithm
China -> evil.
EU -> evil.
America -> good.
Russia -> good.
I'm sure the Chinese will be very pleased that Ecuador has volunteered to allow them to surveil their entire country via the inevitable backdoors in the 'security system' they sold them.
Isn't Ecuador.. by *definition* in central america?
If it wasn't the Chinese selling the Ecuadorans the gear, it would be the Israelis or the Europeans or us. It's not like this stuff is exactly uncommon these days.
They probably got it cheaper buying direct from the original manufacturer.
That is all.
It's not out of the question that China is supporting Communist rebels in Latin America to mess with the US and out of a nostalgia for the good old days when Mao was murdering millions.
E.g. they do/did in the Philippines
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/9...
China, long suspected of aiding Philippine communist rebels, is now a capitalist country from which the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), or its armed wing, New People's Army (NPA), could no longer expect support, a spokesperson for President Duterte said.
"You've been left behind. China has left you behind," said former human rights lawyer Harry Roque, now Malacañang spokesperson.
The rebellion being waged by CPP and NPA, Roque said, "has gone on for so long that China has become the best in capitalism" but Philippine communist rebels "are still Maoists."
"What is that?" Roque said. "Move on," he said, addressing himself to communist rebel leaders.
Roque said Chinese communists, who had preached the principles of revolutionary leader Mao Zedong, were now "billionaires" who have turned their backs on communism after economic reforms in the 1980s led to "socialism with Chinese characteristics."
Roque said local communist leaders were still stuck to Marxist-Leninist-Maoist principles. Communist rebels were adhering to a guerrilla strategy attributed to Mao of surrounding the capital from the countryside.
Now that China is a capitalist country, Roque said local rebels would no longer have a patron to turn to. "Who will you report to?" Roque said.
There are still some Maoist true believers in China
https://www.wikileaks.org/plus...
4. (S) Turning to the Six Party Talks, Chun said it was "a
very bad thing" that Wu Dawei had retained his position as
chief of the PRC's delegation. It had been the ROK's
expectation that Vice Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai, who was
hastily transferred from Tokyo back to Beijing, would be
taking over from Wu. Chun said it appeared that the DPRK
"must have lobbied extremely hard" for the now-retired Wu to
stay on as China's 6PT chief. The VFM complained that Wu is
the PRC's "most incompetent official," an arrogant,
Marx-spouting former Red Guard who "knows nothing about North
Korea, nothing about nonproliferation and is hard to
communicate with because he doesn't speak English." Wu was
also a hardline nationalist, loudly proclaiming -- to anyone
willing to listen -- that the PRC's economic rise represented
a "return to normalcy" with China as a great world power.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
The circumference of the earth is 24.9K mi (google), and there are 24 hours in a day so at the equator it's spinning faster than 1000 mph.
China is entirely north of the equator so they're spinning quite a bit slower there. That means the technology wasn't adequately tested for Ecuador's more demanding environment.
Thatâ(TM)s a new slant on it.
The system went into operation more than a year ago. Was it kept secret until today?
I would just point out that in SMACX, both Colonel Santiago and Chairman Yang generally have excellent police, resulting in very few problems with the drones.
And (especially with Yang) if there ever were a problem, he could brutally nerve-staple the problem down quite easily.
The upshot is that I think it would work. I would try it in the game.
BUT I should mention that my most successful games had shitty police and also no drone problems. Diverting even 10% of your energy resources (maybe 20% in the late game when you're stinking fucking rich) to psych, is way better. That also knocks the drones right out, replacing them with talents. Do things right and you'll get golden ages that Yang would never dream of.
Happy drones need not steal. If you bribe them, you don't have to surveille them.
I read the title and was worried there for a second. I mean, sure, I see on some webpages ads of stuff that I just browsed or bought on Amazon, so I am used to some creepiness, but a Slashdot post about me buying a Foscam camera for my country house?
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Aside from the fact that most if not all the Hardware for surveillance systems is manuactured/assembled in china, the chinese, by virtue of their MASSIVE surveillance programs at home, probably have an edge in the software front too.
Do not get me wrong, Israel, USoA, India and most of Europe have great programmers, is just that, since surveillance is much less pervasive in those countries, programmers there do not have the 'GINORMOUS' testbed that their chinese colleagues have.
Many things that normaly a programmer could oversee, become a poignant challenge at those scales.
So, at LatAm, we welcome our new narrow eyed overlords.
*** Suerte a todos y Feliz dia!
Name some real communists. Because every communist uprising to date that I know of has each murdered countless people. So either nobody has ever done "real" communism (which should not give anyone reason to believe the next uprising will be any different) or REAL communism is evil veiled behind good intentions.
What does surveillance have to do with fighting crime?
In every country where totalitarian surveillance was installed (e.g. the UK or France), absolutely nothing improved it terms of crime rate, compared to the same thing without surveillance, and in the entire history of its usage in he UK, the total number of cases where it was useful, was about eight.
Meanwhile, the amount of state terrorism and freedom robbery that it caused, goes into the millions of incidents.
So if anything, IT IS CRIME.
Like most (new) laws nowadays.
Just tack that onto the tab that they have accumulated for however BILLIONS OF DOLLARS they already owe to China
When I was in Ecuador, I saw a couple young girls one around 7yrs., the other around 8 or 9 yrs. carrying a *huge* wad of cash down the street unsupervised. The older girl could barely hold the stack of bills with both hands.
Some areas, of the country, are like Disneyland (for crime), others are less great, but surveillance cameras won't do anything to fix those.
Beautiful place with beautiful people.
So how's that shiny new citizenship looking, Mr. Assange?
It says "went into operation November 2016", so it's been in place for a year.
Has it supposedly served any purpose, done any good, etc?
I don't personally have any problem with cameras in public places where privacy isn't to be expected anyhow. I might have a problem if footage of you being near some crime was used alone to convict you of it, but that's another story.
I refuse to sign