With its 19 lenses, the Mantis, one of the world’s most powerful cameras, can capture cities and people in the big picture, and then drill down into extraordinary detail. This tool is now powering the Chinese surveillance state. Photo: Qilai Shen for The Wall Street Journal
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ManagerMr
Yes! 1984 is here.
John Aeron Caiga
ManagerMr It’s not long until we have thought police. 😂
111danish111
1982
Lenard Segnitz
We’ve been dumping private information on Facebook for over 10 years. We’ve given over our shopping habits through loyalty cards for over 20 years. Surveillance cameras are thick as pigeons in a park in the UK for at least 30 years. Now we have AI that will tie all that together on anyone.
Sky Magenta
@Lenard Segnitz so correct; – but, even worse, – these ‘companies’ have surveillance (and computer record) your Personal Abdominal Emissions. local authorities and water companies are in (criminal) denial about this.
ScreamingEagle
@John Aeron Caiga we already have a form of thought police…BLM and Antifa
Sandeep
it’s scary, it’s downright scary to think that whatever i am doing be it private or public is being watched, to live in that constant state of fear and anxiety is not something any human being should go through.
Morgan Hill Fight Club
Buy a lazer and destroy them
John West
@111danish111 this started decades ago but go off.
John West
@Russell Explain to me boys, the inner workings of the big five tech corps, the internet and telecommunications systems and the government. that would be just dandy x
John West
@iRonlMoNKleY Explain to me boys, the inner workings of the big five tech corps, the internet and telecommunications systems and the government. that would be just dandy x
AutumnJKD
Walk through Harlem, East Oakland or East LA and tell me if you feel anxiety or not HAHHAHA
Lotfi Kaz Film
How proud are you making a dictator reach his goals quicker
Donkey Kong
It’s just like gun control. Guns don’t kill just people kill. Lol
Donkey Kong
If you pay attention, actually the reverse, dictatorship is helping Americans build snooping cameras. But we sure likes stab them I. The back.
Daniel Feliciano
@White Wolf do you really waste your energy on thoughts like that?
Anthony Trump
Good people don’t need to be afraid
Darin Sease
@Daniel Feliciano This silliness is spouted to justify the invasion of privacy and the nullification of rights. But it never seems to happen. Bye the way, we created a U.S. Department of Homeland Security. How is that working out? Nobody’s feeling really secure right about now.
earthcry
“…having a camera that can capture everything is going to change our lives.”
for better or worse though?
devukin
AcctistaZ better
Dan Wood
The problem is more along the lines of what particular actions are deemed criminal, and what types of activities do we want caught on film, and stored in a database so that they can be retrieved.
BRC Equals X
until you personally are affected no one needs any camera.
John West
@Ninja1inblack “‘Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.’”
John West
@Ninja1inblack yes because the law has so much integrity
111danish111
3:52 A gigapixel camera the size of a gopro ?? really !!!
Random Guy
111danish111 10cm is more then gopro
Dave
Current model is the size of a basketball shoe box, in 4 years he said he will shrink it to a 10cm cube, for mid and low level model he said it possible to shrink it to a GoPro size.
111danish111
However the current model seems to have 19 cameras ?
xorbodude
Porn will never be the same again
FlowerPowerNZ
Another guy who is willing to have blood on his hands for a dollar.
mpsSalvadoran
Morgan Hill Fight Club facial recognition, social credit system, hes not not lying…
Morgan Hill Fight Club
@mpsSalvadoran anyone eho accepts money to violate our privacy and spy on our life deserves death how dare they put our face in a database we should sue them for it keep my facd out of your database
BUBBLEGUM GUN
get of your moral high horse
Cecilia Policarpio
so true,these scumbags are enslaving the world,at some point their toys will have to be destroyed….chip companies etc are all complicit,maybe attack through the courts first,the people are not consenting to these or the use of resources for such.
Benny cb
There is one way we can trick this. Changing our appearance quickly and randomly, like carrying an extra t-shirt, a double sided jacket, wearing colored contact lenses and movie grade face masks to look different every time they see you.
Mike
With the help of this guy, our government will have even more super power to control us.
Well, au revoir YouTube.
JJ163
D’accord.
Lucky Lai
China is doing something like this https://youtu.be/GpcIDsXKmXU
If you have been china and check the TV news, you’ll find nothing bad happens. Only peaceful news.
The Algonquin
Keep being stupid!
The Algonquin
Due to those who would take our rights away. Otherwise known as Demonratic Party!
Ben Ghazi
Remember, Youtube is actively helping the CCP censor criticism of them.
That’s how rotten this platform is now
CMDR REFLIPD
Just what we needed another tool for the police state.
CMDR REFLIPD
Ninja1inblack ahh your liberal state of mind. What would be the sense in having a private conversation if it cant be private.
Ninja1inblack
re FLIPd they can’t record your conversations, these are just cameras, not microphones. *facepalm*
I don’t speak for any political party, I only speak truth and facts.
Bryant Zerrato
+Ninja1inblack don’t worry people have been listening to your conversations from thousands of miles away way before this came out it’s called tapping
CMDR REFLIPD
Bryant Zerrato you can’t tap a line when talking in person. You can give up your rights to privacy, but I still want mine as do millions of others. So you can speak for yourself but not for anyone else.
CMDR REFLIPD
Ninja1inblack yeah they have ai that can read lips and convert is text, in any language.
Cyber MacGyver
Can you imagine live streaming the footage on youtube… people would watch 👀
Bored Gamer
finally i can wear my deadpool mask in public!!!😂
Joseph Bennett
That’s a great way to keep people from wanting to go Naked in public or on nude beaches. The perverted type of people definitely would be watching the cameras for that use😂🤣😁
台獨_台独 🇹🇼
Joseph Bennett
I’d argue the naked dude on the beach is more perverted than the person watching
Bella Umbrellla
NYC is a very well-watched city. Cameras abound! Mantis cameras are probably part of their surveillance or will be part soon
_窮
1:21 Video stitching leaves something to be desired. Doubling and overlap can be seen with the camera producer standing in front of the van.
epSos.de
*The memory storage requirements* for this camera will be insane.
This camera is good for landscape photography. Imagine the small details we can see in the landscape photo, if we had such a camera for personal use 🙂
Mental Inlander
China hickvision develop h265 Pro+
Check it its amazing
NotanAlien
BUT how will it see through the smog? lol
russell dunning
Somehow, I think this technology could be “abused”:
“Dissident, you can run but you can’t hide!”
Lolita Love
This is awesome!! I need a lesser version for simple home security!! ❤
steelcannibal
An overly eager entrepreneur forging digital shackles, to further enslave humanity…
Awesome Aasim
I guess NSA probably is having a fun time using something similar to this to watch the entire city of [insert an American city near you].
Mike Girard
“having a camera that can capture everything, is going to change our lives” – yeah, you can say that again…