For the people wondering about CCTV, the ‘it’s for your safety, to protect you’ etc crowd. I have addressed CCTV here.
Like I keep saying, it is about watching you. About your state keeping tabs on your movement, location and behaviour.
Yes, behaviour, software has been developed that can analyse your temperature, body language and other signs, and use that data to predict your mood. And that protects you how exactly?
Do you really think if you pretend it isn’t happening, that somehow it will cease to exist? Talk about a weak, child like view of things. ‘I’ll put my hands over my eyes and it will go away.’
It’s also called head in the sand syndrome. Here is another article showing you the potential of this ‘protective’ technology.
Before you dive in, remember this. This is regarding China. China is a communist dictatorship. Not a democracy. They execute those who are in disagreement with the states’ policies. They enforce population control. The one-child policy that encourages families to kill baby girls until they get a boy. They harvest organs of those they execute and sell them to the West.
Now there are reports of the cannibalizing of these infants. Note that this isn’t confirmed.
From the article:
But now comes the latest occasion for these comments. Next Magazine, a weekly out of Hong Kong, reports that the latest delicacy in Communist-occupied China is the expertly prepared corpse of a baby. No, you’re not going crazy; you did read what you thought I just said. People in Red China now are cannibalizing humans. In China, you can even buy choice body parts from the hospitals.
The story appears in the Epoch Times, which says that Next Magazine got wind of it in Taiwan, where a businessman hosted a banquet. There, a servant named Liu from Liaoning Province on the mainland inadvertently revealed the cannibalistic practice and her intention to return to participate in it for health reasons. The Taiwanese women present at the banquet were horrified.
The magazine asked the servant to escort a reporter to a location where he could see a baby being prepared and she did so. The reporter saw a woman chopping up a male “fetus” and making soup from the placenta. The butcher told observers, “Don’t be afraid, this is just the flesh of a higher animal.”
Epoch Times says that on March 22, 2003, police in Bingyan, Guangxi Province seized 28 female babies smuggled in a truck from Yulin, Guangxi Province going to Houzhou in Anhui Province. The oldest baby was only three months old. The babies were packed three or four to a bag and many of them were near death No one claimed them.
On the morning of October 9, 2004, someone rifling through the garbage on the outskirts of Jiuquan city in the Suzhou region, found dismembered babies in a dumpster. There were two heads, two torsos, four arms, and six legs. According to the investigation, the corpses were no more than a week old and they had been dismembered after cooking.
Red China does have laws that prohibit the eating of human flesh, but it also has a law that limits each couple to only one child. The law is strictly enforced, and it motivates couples to kill girl babies until they get a boy. Second babies and so on are forcibly aborted. The result is many baby corpses that can be cooked and eaten.
Now, to the main event. I encourage you to read the article in its entirety. I will insert a selection of quotes here and add comments in order to explain the common elements between China’s actions and the UK governments actions.
China Enacting a High-Tech Plan to Track People - By KEITH BRADSHER
SHENZHEN, China, Aug. 9 — At least 20,000 police surveillance cameras are being installed along streets here in southern China and will soon be guided by sophisticated computer software from an American-financed company to recognize automatically the faces of police suspects and detect unusual activity.
Britain has over 4 million CCTV cameras.
Starting this month in a port neighborhood and then spreading across Shenzhen, a city of 12.4 million people, residency cards fitted with powerful computer chips programmed by the same company will be issued to most citizens.
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.
Britain’s ID card will contain even more data about you.
Security experts describe China’s plans as the world’s largest effort to meld cutting-edge computer technology with police work to track the activities of a population and fight crime. But they say the technology can be used to violate civil rights.
The Chinese government has ordered all large cities to apply technology to police work and to issue high-tech residency cards to 150 million people who have moved to a city but not yet acquired permanent residency.
Both steps are officially aimed at fighting crime and developing better controls on an increasingly mobile population, including the nearly 10 million peasants who move to big cities each year. But they could also help the Communist Party retain power by maintaining tight controls on an increasingly prosperous population at a time when street protests are becoming more common.
Do you think it would be acceptable for your government (yours, as in it belongs to you, not the other way around) to maintain tight controls over you?
“If they do not get the permanent card, they cannot live here, they cannot get government benefits, and that is a way for the government to control the population in the future,” said Michael Lin, the vice president for investor relations at China Public Security Technology, the company providing the technology.
That is what this is about. Control, not protection. Or when they use the term protection, they mean protecting themselves from you.
But rising fears of terrorism have lessened public hostility to surveillance cameras in the West. This has been particularly true in Britain, where the police already install the cameras widely on lamp poles and in subway stations and are developing face recognition software as well.
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Some civil rights activists contend that the cameras in China and Britain are a violation of the right of privacy contained in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
My emphasis. I want you to realise something. ‘Human rights’, ‘freedom’, ‘privacy’ are only concept like everything else. They can be taken away from you. It isn’t like the laws of physics. Just read history to learn of the atrocities committed. If the people allow it, they can be forced into complete slavery and nothing will stop them. You cannot rely on the concept of human rights to justify your apathy, you must be willing to fight for them. You must be willing to enforce those rights.
Governments want to track the population. They want to know everywhere you go and everything you do. They want to know who you talk you, what you look up on the internet, what emails you send, what food you buy, what films you watch. Everything.
The idea behind big government is unlimited power. They can only gain this power by taking that power away from the people. That can only happen if the people allow it. That’s what fear is for. To scare the population into giving up their liberties.
The government seeks control over the population by controlling the populations assets. In this technological age, data is power. (Knowledge is power). The massive centralisation of data will be further enabled by ID cards. Biometric data belongs to you. It is as private as the thoughts in your head. The government wants this from you.
Stop pretending that it isn’t happening.
