With the help of U.S. defense contractors, an estimated 2 million closed circuit tv-cameras or CCTVs for short (oh the irony) will be installed over the next three years in Shenzhen. The surveillance experiment is part of the heroically named Golden Shield Project (Patriot Act, anyone?) which also gave birth to another of our favorite censorship models the Great Firewall.

Considering the U.S. of A's recent track record of "homeland security" measures, it should come as little surprise that a large part of the funding for this system of high-tech control comes from global corporations, "American giants like IBM, Honeywell and General Electric." And why not? In China, control equals stability equals return on investment. Kaaaa-ching.

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