Dubai to have security cameras 'everywhere'

[demoleft]

Source: afp

AFP - Dubai, where a top Hamas commander was killed in January in an assassination blamed on Israel's Mossad spy agency, is to have security cameras "everywhere," the police chief was quoted as saying on Sunday.

The bustling Gulf city currently has 25,000 security cameras, but "surveillance needs to be ramped up to meet the growing requirements of an expanding city," Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan told The National newspaper.

"We need to work according to a well-studied strategic plan and not only react to events as they come along... We will have cameras everywhere," said Khalfan of the 136-million-dollar (110-million-euro) project.

Read more: http://www.france24.com/en/20100620-dubai-have-security-cameras-everywhere

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and every two weeks there will be an eviction from dubai, and during the weeks competitions among the remaining citizens to win prizes.
and the last citizen to remain will win the big brother prize.

[stray cat]

1. like London?

[demoleft]

3. is it like that that london has become? n/t

[sandnsea]

4. Yes

I've even read that they've got audio and can tell people to pick up their trash and whathaveyou.

Well here...

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1711972,00.html

[realisticphish]

5. wow

it's like they're actually TRYING to follow Orwell's blueprint. I used to joke about it, but good god, yelling at someone that they are exhibiting "inappropriate behavior" from a security camera??

[demoleft]

7. very sad. thanks for the link. n/t

[JCMach1]

15. London has far more! Unfortunately, the sand sheikhs tend to take their 'brilliant' ideas from our

British cousins... especially the bad ones.

It seems like every street corner in Britain has one these days.

[Blue Owl]

2. Now we know why Erik Prince is going there

sounds like that sick fuck's wet dream come true.

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. I can see it now.

Some poor bastard in Dubai jaywalks and Prince's little band of mercenaries show up and shoot him.

[Jkid]

6. Those who prefer security instead of liberty...

Do not deserve both.

[JDPriestly]

9. Dubai is being used as an experiment.

Soon, the powers that really control the world will want those cameras everywhere. Freedom of any kind is on the way out.

So says the more paranoid portion of my personality. I hope it is wrong.

[Selena Harris]

13. Halliburton moved to Dubai three years ago...

Wonder if BP and Halliburton are drilling in the Persian Gulf,too?

[fleabert]

10. anyone that lives here, as i do, knows that you are probably on camera 70-80% of the time

outside and in public places. they are already everywhere alcohol is served, and that's where the expats and tourists are. same with hotel and apartment entrances and elevators. i guess the police chief is referring to neighborhoods and older areas of town that are public...

dubai ain't the first, and won't be the last, city to have cctv on every corner.

not that I approve, but it's nothing new or shocking.

i assume i am on camera- this is not a free country, never will be.

[nichomachus]

11. I believe that every square inch of public space in Monaco is under surveillance

[happygoluckytoyou]

12. what do they think this is CHICAGO???

[The Backlash Cometh]

14. Samantha would be horrified.

Or maybe not.