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50,000 Cameras Planned for Mumbai, India
by John Honovich, IPVM Posted on Jul 07, 2009 About John Contact JohnThere is a massive video surveillance deployment planned in Mumbai. Read the article and you will see some elements seem strange. They plan to use the system for many different reasons from preventing terrorism, monitoring traffic and reducing crime (doing all simultaneously with a system is hard). Specifica...
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