Hong Kong Police Surveillance Expansion
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•Hong Kong plans to install thousands of surveillance cameras. Critics say it’s more proof the city is moving closer to China | CNN
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Hong Kong police pursuing ambitious campaign to install thousands of surveillance cameras.
Police plan to install cameras with facial recognition and AI to fight crime.
Hong Kong has more than 54,500 public CCTV cameras, about seven cameras per 1,000 people.
Critics say the city's political environment has seen an ongoing crackdown on political dissent as it draws closer to authoritarian mainland China .
Authorities have not laid out in detail how they would use facial recognition in Hong Kong .
Beijing has used cameras to monitor members of the Muslim -majority Uyghur population in Xinjiang .
Hong Kong police have argued the cameras help fight crime, pointing to a pilot program earlier this year of 15 cameras installed in one district.
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