Hace casi un mes, en mi visita a Glasgow, pasé por el nuevo terminal del aeropuerto de Heathrow. En él te hacen un par de fotos de la cara para integrarlas en una base de datos y te toman las huellas dactilares (en aquel momento tenían desactivado lo de las huellas por un caos que tenían montando). Pero donde realmente se esta llevando a gran escala el control de la gente a través de reconocimiento facial es en varias ciudades de China. Naomi Klein en su artículo China’s All-Seeing Eye narra con todo lujos de detalles como se esta creando este «Gran Hermano» en la ciudad China de Shenzhen.
Now, as China prepares to showcase its economic advances during the upcoming Olympics in Beijing, Shenzhen is once again serving as a laboratory, a testing ground for the next phase of this vast social experiment. Over the past two years, some 200,000 surveillance cameras have been installed throughout the city. Many are in public spaces, disguised as lampposts. The closed-circuit TV cameras will soon be connected to a single, nationwide network, an all-seeing system that will be capable of tracking and identifying anyone who comes within its range — a project driven in part by U.S. technology and investment. Over the next three years, Chinese security executives predict they will install as many as 2 million CCTVs in Shenzhen, which would make it the most watched city in the world. (Security-crazy London boasts only half a million surveillance cameras.)
