Beijing’s 70,000 taxis have had equipment installed in the run up to the Olympics, that enable the authorities to bug them, track them via GPS and disable them remotely. Apparently this is all in the name of driver safety, but then, that is the official line.
This kind of technology is often compared to Orwell’s 1984, [...]
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Beijing’s Taxis are Bugged and Tracked
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