http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asi...l-seeing-state
It is not only that they are able to see all, they are installing a system that punishes or promotes you, depending on how you behave.
Crossed a road with red lights?
Said something critical about the system?
Used too much water while showering?
You are an Uighur?
Goodbye to your job, or jail.
" .... Chinese surveillance technology ― which, in many cases, is being developed at least partially with funding from Silicon Valley venture capital firms ― isn’t limited to use in China.
In 2014, a Chinese telecom company sold monitoring technology to the government of Ethiopia, which has been brutally cracking down on protesters. Brazil, Kenya, Ecuador and Britain have all purchased Chinese video monitoring systems as well. ..."
And it is able to survey every. single. human. being. Automatically.
I already thought that London was bad with its millions of cameras, but this is the wet dream of every totalitarian state.