U.S.-China Surveillance

According to the press release issued today, Nokia Siemens Networks will be the primary solutions provider for China Telecom’s new video monitoring service, MegaEyes. The service, a “range-extended auditory and vision management tool that can help improve work effectiveness and life experience,” will be targeted at both individual and corporate users.

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From the China Daily (January 22):
A couple videotaped kissing and hugging at a metro station is to sue the Shanghai Metro Co for allowing the video to be broadcast on the Internet, the Oriental Morning Post reported Monday.
The three-minute video of the couple in their 20s was shot in September and uploaded to Youtube.com and [...]

Privacy International’s 2007 annual report ranking privacy in the major nations of the world now classifies the U.S. as an “endemic surveillance society,” putting it in the same company with eight other countries, including Russia, China, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan and the UK. The U.S. was one of 14 nation states in which surveillance grew significantly. [...]

I’ve added a new feature to this blog, a real-time feed of surveillance-related news items and other documents as I find them. There is a link to it on the navigation bar to the left. Comments welcome.

There has been so much US-focused surveillance news of late, I decided I needed to balance it with a China-related post. What follows is a five-minute clip from an August 11 newscast on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Newsworld’s anchor interviews tech consultant Jesse Hirsh about China’s plans to expand its surveillance infrastructure with AI-powered [...]

The Bill of Rights Defense Committee has produced an excellent instructional video on the growing use and abuse of national security letters (NSLs) by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Its available in two parts on Youtube and embedded below.
When a private firm does not comply with a friendly request from the FBI for information [...]