Well, the Chinese are getting a leg up on everyone else in the race to an oppressive and bleakly government controlled future. 1984, Minority Report, Impostor, Gattaca, Equilibrium, Aeon Flux, THX 1138, Animal Farm (wait that was animals); pick whatever dystopian film you want, they all start with tracking the populous.
So China is taking that first leap and issuing id cards to the majority of its citizens. I know, you have an id card in your wallet right now, but it doesn't have your "name and address... work history, educational background, religion, ethnicity, police record, medical insurance status... landlord's phone number" and "personal reproductive history" on a wireless chip. Officials are hoping to keep crime under control and enforce their "one child" policy.
They're really making no bones about it, they want to stay in control. "If they do not get the permanent card, they cannot live here, they cannot get government benefits, and that is a way for the government to control the population in the future," Combine this with the 200,000 cameras hooked to a facial recognition algorithm and you'd think twice about going to protest the benevolent and glorious Communist Party of China. Yeah.
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