IPVM has profiled the rise and recent decline of Sharp Eyes projects, which are PRC government-built video surveillance networks.
A Chinese writer, Pang Li, has written an essay - "A Year In Rural Surveillance" - describing his year of watching footage from a camera installed at his family's house in the countryside.
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