Sunday, August 12, 2007

China Enacting a High-Tech Plan to Track People

It looks like AT&T is gearing up for more than just selling the American public out to the NSA.
Check this out! I found the link on Boing Boing. This stuff just isn't going to go away. What do you think Shaun?

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.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Paul, it's Mallcity 14's infopanels, SIDs and extreme control, and not an Uncle Jilby in sight...

Coming to a major urban centre near you, and soon...

Somehow, I doubt that China will embrace either my dystopia - Mallcity 14 - or my collection of shorts - Navigating in the New World - any time soon.

Anonymous said...

It strikes me as almost a testbed of the tech that it would take. And so blatant!