China 2021: The State Of Surveillance

China will have 560 million facial recognition cameras by 2021, having increased by 70 percent since 2015. By 2018, this is one camera per 4.1 citizens; by comparison, the U.S. has one camera per 4.6 citizens. ⁃ TN EditorHigh atop Mount Xiqiao, an extinct volcano that soars above the Pearl River Delta, a towering statue of the Buddhist goddess Guanyin gazes down on the concrete sprawl of the city of Foshan. For centuries, the mountain’s scenic caves and waterfalls provided a refuge f