The coronavirus pandemic has brought surveillance cameras closer to people's private lives in China: from public spaces in the city to the front doors of their homes — and in some rare cases, surveillance cameras inside their apartments
The morning after Ian Lahiffe returned to Beijing, he found a surveillance camera being mounted on the wall outside his apartment door. Its lens was pointing right at him.
After a trip to southern China, the 34-year-old Irish expat and his family were starting their two-week home quarantine, a mandatory measure enforced by the Beijing government to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus. He said he opened the door as the camera was being installed, without warning. " an incredible erosion of privacy," said Lahiffe."It just seems to be a massive data grab. And I don't know how much of it is actually legal.
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