<story><title>Stop replacing London’s phone boxes with corporate surveillance</title><url>http://www.wired.co.uk/article/linkuk-bt-google-free-wifi-and-calls-london</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Sure the West and China are both turning into biometric dystopias  buuuuuuuut ours delivers fried chicken to your train seat.&lt;/i&gt; - Naomi Wu, Shenzhen.&lt;p&gt;For some railroad lines in China, you can order food while on a train and have it delivered to you at a station. That requires finding the passenger quickly, so some combination of cell phone tracking and face recognition is used.[1] KFC is using this system.&lt;p&gt;China&amp;#x27;s approach to Big Brother is more like a service function. The Government knows who you are and what you&amp;#x27;re doing, but China has been like that for centuries. There&amp;#x27;s no tradition of anonymity. The older paper-based systems worked when people didn&amp;#x27;t move much. The newer technology is being used to provide routine services, such as convenience store checkout and finding purse snatchers.&lt;p&gt;London has a lot of cameras, but many of them are old, so they have poor resolution. Newer 4K surveillance cameras [2] finally have enough resolution to be useful for recognizing faces at 40 feet or so.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.chinadaily.com.cn&amp;#x2F;china&amp;#x2F;2017-07&amp;#x2F;13&amp;#x2F;content_30092586.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.chinadaily.com.cn&amp;#x2F;china&amp;#x2F;2017-07&amp;#x2F;13&amp;#x2F;content_300925...&lt;/a&gt;
[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.lorextechnology.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;What-is-4k-Video&amp;#x2F;R-sc16000060&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.lorextechnology.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;What-is-4k-Video&amp;#x2F;R-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Stop replacing London’s phone boxes with corporate surveillance</title><url>http://www.wired.co.uk/article/linkuk-bt-google-free-wifi-and-calls-london</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>HenryBemis</author><text>Briton are 95% comfortable with massive surveillance. The &amp;quot;average Joe&amp;quot; has the &amp;quot;I got nothing to hide&amp;quot; and that &amp;quot;go get them paedophiles&amp;quot;, which are very true statements.&lt;p&gt;We are talking about a nation that has 4,200,000 [1] cameras surveilling them and nobody bats an eye about this. For some reason, Britons have decided (or was forced to them and they didn&amp;#x27;t push back) that privacy is not necessary, so, let them have it.&lt;p&gt;What harm can 3 more cameras can do? :) (per kiosk, per street)&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Mass_surveillance_in_the_United_Kingdom&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Mass_surveillance_in_the_Unite...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>