Shenzhen: "China's All-Seeing Eye"

Rolling Stone Magazine has published (Issue 1053, May 29, 2008) "China's All-Seeing Eye," Naomi Klein's investigation of the development of surveillance technologies in China. Shenzhen has grown from a string of fishing villages 30 years ago to a urban center of 12.4 million people today. In the last two years, 200,000 surveillance cameras have been installed throughout the city, with plans for over 2 million more to be installed in the next three years. Surveillance cameras are part of a nationwide "Golden Shield" system in which Chinese citizens will not only be watched by the cameras. They will be observed surfing the web, bugged on phones, and tracked with facial-recognition software and GPS monitoring.

• Full story: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/20797485/chinas_allseeing_eye
  
  
• Photo Gallery--A View of (and From) the Security Cameras in Shenzhen: http://www.rollingstone.com/photos/gallery/20818544/chinas_allseeing_eye_a_nation_u
  
  
• Interview with Naomi Klein about Security Cameras Investigation: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/20924284/under_surveillance_qa_with_naomi_klein
  
  
• Interview with Naomi Klein about her book The Shock Doctrine: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/17478636/shocking_truths