A Fox News crew parked illegally in Beijing for two minutes. Before they could walk away, their driver received a $40 ticket on his phone. The camera had already seen it, processed it, and issued the fine. Nobody had to be there.
Fox News anchor Bret Baier said from Beijing this week describing what standing on a single street corner looks like: over 20 visible cameras at one intersection near Haidian Station. Beijing added 1,500 new cameras this year alone. Nobody jaywalks because the fine arrives on your phone before you finish crossing the street.
The scale behind that single street corner is staggering. China operates an estimated 700 million surveillance cameras nationally, roughly one for every two citizens. Eight of the ten most surveilled cities in the world are in China. The cameras do not just record. They feed into AI-powered facial recognition systems that can identify a person within seconds, cross-reference them against criminal and social credit databases, and flag them to authorities automatically. Chinese AI firm Watrix has already deployed gait-recognition software that identifies individuals from 50 meters away based on how they walk, even with their faces covered.
The system feeds into China's Social Credit framework, which aggregates legal violations into blacklists that can restrict travel, loans, and access to public services. Subway stations in cities like Guangzhou already sort passengers using facial recognition pulled from credit and criminal databases. Beijing plans to link facial IDs with healthcare and utility records.
None of this is hidden. The CCP calls it public safety. What it actually is: a government that has built the most comprehensive citizen-monitoring infrastructure in human history, tested it on its own population, and is now selling it to every authoritarian government willing to pay.
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🚨 Canada is becoming a full surveillance state.
Signal just warned it will pull out of Canada entirely rather than comply with Bill C-22: “We’d rather pull out of the country than be compelled to compromise on the privacy promises we have made to our users.”
The bill forces tech companies to retrofit systems for police & CSIS access, retain metadata for up to 1 year, and effectively weaken end-to-end encryption. Signal, Meta & Apple all say it’s a backdoor by another name.
Dystopia achieved.
This is horrifying and every American needs to hear this
California resident exposes what’s really going on with Flock Cameras in America
“I want to be clear what these cameras actually are, and I say that with somebody with 20 years of experience in IT. I've served as the chief network architect for Fortune 500 companies, I've designed data centers, and today I work on cloud infrastructure for one of the largest loan origination companies in the country. I'm not speculating on how this technology works. I've read their patents and I know how it works.
Flock advertises these cameras as simple license plate readers. But their own patents tell a different story.
They're AI-powered surveillance machines that capture every passing vehicle and person and transmit that data to a private corporate cloud, making it queryable by a multitude of state and federal agencies. The city of Corona does not control that database, and Corona residents have no public record rights against a private company's servers. Our daily movements are being harvested by a $7.5 billion corporation, that only answers to venture capital investors, not to us. Flock did not reach that valuation on their per-camera subscription fees. That math doesn't add up
The city council should also understand who they're doing business with. Flock CEO was asked whether the company had any federal contracts. He said no. That was a lie.
Public records revealed that Flock had been secretly running a pilot program giving the US Border Patrol access to local police camera data without the knowledge of the cities that paid for the cameras.
Now consider who's behind the company and where your data flows. Flock integrates directly with Palantir, a data fusion platform, with a $30 million contract with ICE. Peter Thiel, the founder of Palantir, is also one of Flock's primary investors. These are not separate companies with separate agendas. They are connected actors that are building a connected infrastructure.
Palantir's own CEO stated publicly just this month that his technology is being used as a political instrument, designed to reduce the political power of certain voters. And that's the ecosystem that our Corona cameras are feeding into.
We're not anti-police at all. We're against mass surveillance of innocent residents by a company with a documented record of deception, built by investors with a stated political agenda. We're asking the City Council to start auditing the queries made against Flock's database, to disclose any data sharing agreements, and to take a vote to cancel the Flock safety contract”
I looked more into this and he is 100% right
Patents describe broader object detection, including tracking people and pedestrians, patents like US11416545B1. The system uses a centralized cloud database for nationwide queries
Data goes to Flock’s private cloud, AWS-based, encrypted. Nationwide lookup is common, 75%+ of customers are enrolled enabling cross-jurisdictional searches. Residents have no direct public records access to the corporate servers.
This creates a mass surveillance network feeding a private company’s infrastructure
If you ask me this is laying the infrastructure for a mass surveillance network in America. We are being lied to. Cancel all contracts nationwide
American was driving a brand new 2026 car
The car gave her an alert that said it couldn’t see her eyes. The car then automatically disabled the gas and slowed down enough that it could have caused an accident
She had to lean toward so the car’s facial recognition could register her eyes and stop the “kill switch” because the car thought she might be asleep
“It was a 6 lane highway and all of a sudden the gas stopped working and I'm pressing on the gas. I can't get the car to go. So the car is dinging, it's making all this noise and I can't figure out what's going on. And I look at the dashboard and in English it says, sit up straight. We can't find your eyes.
Why? Why do you need to see my eyes? — when I sat upright, the gas would work once again. And so I pressed the gas, but I was slowing down enough that it was gonna cause a traffic hazard.
And the thing is, it knew I wasn't asleep because I was pressing on the gas. So it knew I was awake. It just wanted to see my eyes. So once I set upright and leaned forward, I guess it did facial recognition. And then it says, may I send you these results to a third party”
This is horrifying considering the new mandate to have kill switches in every new vehicle by 2027. It looks like it’s already happening but overseas, we’re just next
This technology can and will be abused by the government
@WallStreetApes 🇨🇳 It's in China too.
China strictly enforces a mandatory AI surveillance system to scan facial features for signs of impairment or drowsiness etc.
A car's AI gave one Chinese driver over 20 drowsiness warnings — all because it couldn't recognize his naturally smaller eyes
Someone from an insurance company reached out to @Survivallilly and explained how digitalized cars will no longer be controlled by the owner. They can be controlled remotely and report your driving habits to police/insurance.
Aldous Huxley/George Orwell tier nightmare fuel.
This. Is. Terrifying.
This technology should NEVER be allowed to be used.
Ford can fvck right off and so can the Congress members who voted to put this tech in vehicles starting in 2027.
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1/ Your daughter posts something online.
She is 19. In college. Trying to figure out what she believes. She shares a political opinion that an algorithm flags as problematic.
You do not see it happen. No one notifies you. No one tells her.
But 72 hours later, her bank account is frozen. Her student loans are suspended. Her digital ID shows a compliance violation.
And there is nothing you can do to protect her.
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@MmmKayActor@Jaynesharp Unbelievable. What's next? "Uh pls keep ur mask on coz the client doesn't like your face." If switching to ur natural accent off camera isn't detracting from ur work on camera, then I would decline with a polite F* that.