{"id":45618,"date":"2021-01-05T15:16:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T19:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=45618"},"modified":"2021-01-05T15:16:47","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T19:16:47","slug":"this-is-what-covid-1984-looks-like-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=45618","title":{"rendered":"This is what COVID-1984 looks like worldwide."},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Mapping The World&#8217;s Most-Surveilled Cities (London Leads The West)<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Since the world\u2019s first CCTV camera was installed in Germany in 1942, the number of surveillance cameras around the world has grown immensely. In fact, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visualcapitalist.com\/mapped-the-top-surveillance-cities-worldwide\/\">as Visual Capitalist&#8217;s Avery Koop notes<\/a>, it only took us 79 years to go from one camera to nearly\u00a0<strong>one billion<\/strong>\u00a0of these devices.<\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"surveillance-cities-map\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.neomam.com\/surveillance-cities\/map.html\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the above interactive graphic,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/surfshark.com\/surveillance-cities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Surfshark<\/a>\u00a0maps out how prevalent CCTV surveillance cameras are in the world\u2019s 130 most populous cities.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Big Brother is Watching<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>So how many of us are being watched? China and India are the countries with the highest densities of CCTV surveillance cameras in urban areas. Chennai, India has\u00a0<strong>657<\/strong>\u00a0cameras per square kilometer, making it the number one city in the world in terms of surveillance.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a closer look at the world\u2019s\u00a0<strong>top 10 cities<\/strong>\u00a0by CCTV density.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/cities.jpg?itok=4fTuzG-f\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/cities.jpg?itok=4fTuzG-f\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/cities.jpg?itok=4fTuzG-f\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"226\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"4f7ffe95-9ddc-438f-bb5c-522b1588db72\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>London is the only non-Asian city to crack the list with\u00a0<strong>399<\/strong>\u00a0CCTV cameras per square kilometer.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing ranks in tenth place. The Chinese capital has the highest number of CCTV cameras in total, at just over\u00a0<strong>1.1 million<\/strong>\u00a0installed in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Although CCTV cameras have become extremely prevalent in cities around the world, this does not mean these cameras are seeing and\u00a0<em>recognizing<\/em>\u00a0our every move. In most instances, cameras are in a fixed position\u2014and some of the more invasive aspects of CCTV, like accompanying\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.visualcapitalist.com\/facial-recognition-world-map\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">facial recognition technology<\/a>, are not universal yet.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Advert_desktop__1J5vD Advert_align__N0_fw Advert_placement__1I4yb\"><\/div>\n<p><iframe id=\"surveillance-cities-interactive\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.neomam.com\/surveillance-cities\/interactive.html\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><strong>The Need for CCTV<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The ubiquity of surveillance cameras can be unnerving to some, as they represent diminishing privacy. However, there are also those that feel the presence of cameras creates added safety.<\/p>\n<p>While governments like China\u2019s claim that having high amounts of surveillance cameras helps reduce crime, the actual data gets messy. For example, the Chinese city of Taiyuan has roughly\u00a0<strong>120 cameras<\/strong>\u00a0per every thousand people and yet the city has a higher crime index than most.<\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"surveillance-cities-table\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.neomam.com\/surveillance-cities\/table.html\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Freedom vs. Security<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>As surveillance networks become more sophisticated and granular, there is increasing concern about breaches to personal freedoms.<\/p>\n<p>China is doubling down with surveillance in its cities by pioneering the usage and exportation of facial recognition technology. This technology is integral to China\u2019s proposed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.visualcapitalist.com\/the-game-of-life-visualizing-chinas-social-credit-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">social points system<\/a>. With a database of 1.3 billion pictures that can be matched to a face on a CCTV camera in seconds, troublemaking citizens can easily be identified.<\/p>\n<p>In India, on the other hand, the amount of cameras can be attributed to mass urbanization, rising crime, and scarcity of urban resources. Overall, there is a rising middle class that wishes to protect itself with the use of CCTV cameras.<\/p>\n<p>As we close in on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/12\/06\/one-billion-surveillance-cameras-will-be-watching-globally-in-2021.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one billion<\/a>\u00a0CCTV surveillance cameras globally by the end of 2021, we will undoubtedly continue to be monitored well into the future.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/interactive-mapped-top-surveillance-cities-worldwide\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/interactive-mapped-top-surveillance-cities-worldwide<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mapping The World&#8217;s Most-Surveilled Cities (London Leads The West)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}