What do police do to keep an eye on the future? Pick out the people you think will cause trouble by putting cameras around.
The New York Times reported yesterday that the strategy of being surveilled all the time in China doesn't matter if the people are not a threat or not. The Chinese government is helped by huge quantities of footage, data and patterns collected by authorities. People with mental illnesses are targeted.
Despite evidence that the government has stopped marriages it deems threatening, China's Ministry of Public Security didn't reply to multiple requests for comment.
Maya Wang, a senior researcher with Human Rights Watch, said that this is an invisible cage of technology imposed on society. The group of people that are already discriminated against are feeling the disproportionate brunt of it.
The government's motivation was one of the big points of the report. The Big Brother energy is due to the fact that the president wants a stable society.
If that is the case, why were residents left to scream in fear and hunger? When a country uses a robot dog with a loudspeaker to tell people to shut up, technology can't fix starvation.
There is very little chance that any human rights violations come from this government.
There is more on the extremes of the city. Workers are allowed to leave the factory where they have been trapped for months.