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In totalitarian 1984 China, government surveillance is so pervasive that even private companies that have no law enforcement function will send surveillance data to the state.
It's pretty funny how people in the west worry about surveillance China while same and worse is happening at home. Western media constantly running negative stories about China is a really insidious propaganda tactic because the implication behind these stories is that this sort of thing couldn't happen in the west. In effect what they're saying is look at how scary China is, aren't you lucky that you live in a free and democratic western society.
Lately ive started actually counting the number of cameras I see when I go out, and the number is staggering
Do you feel like adding them into OpenStreetMap? If so, https://mapcomplete.org/surveillance makes it easy for you.