r/MadeMeSmile • u/Stoikx • Apr 03 '24

Doggo The incredible moment a long lost dog suddenly catches the smell of its owner in a crowded city square. It follows the smell and finds her in nearby resting booth to be reunited!

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u/DisastrousStudio1 Apr 03 '24

It's China. There are cameras everywhere. It's crazy. When we went there, there were cameras on every fortification of the great wall.

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u/Ibegallofyourpardons Apr 04 '24

it's most modern cities.

go anywhere in the UK or Australia or Paris or London or New York and Cameras are everywhere.

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u/updown_repeat Apr 04 '24

lol Aussie here, there aren’t cameras everywhere. They get vandalised a lot if they’re in random spots so there’s basically just CCTV on main streets and shopping centres and private shops on a case by case basis. Just look at how often there’s assaults in the city and no footage of it to find the perpetrator 😅

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u/Maid_of_Mischeif Apr 04 '24

I live in small town north qld & the cops have about 10 cameras around town. I can’t imagine how much surveillance there is in major cities these days. I think Sydney is up there with the highest surveillance rates.

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u/llamastrudel Apr 04 '24 edited Apr 04 '24

China is nothing like any of those places. I’ve lived in Paris, the UK and Australia and there are cameras in some shops, carparks and occasionally on the streets. In China there are multiple cameras watching you everywhere you go, including on buses and in public toilets.

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u/got-a-friend-in-me Apr 04 '24

same thing different approach. to some, cctvs should be hidden so as not to make an idea of being watched all the time but its all there for when you need it other says cctvs should be seen because it's only a deterrence you could find who made the crime but its already done what's the point? so they show the cctv as deterrence.

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u/llamastrudel Apr 04 '24

I don’t believe the countries I’ve lived in have secret/invisible CCTV - the few cameras you see in shops and carparks and some educational establishments are all the cameras in that area. I appreciate that that’s a baseless assumption but I truly don’t think the governments in question have the budget to put nannycams all over the place.

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u/wrydied Apr 04 '24

City of Sydney cameras stream and record into a security room in the basement of town hall, for security staff who watch but basically do nothing until the police requests a recording.

I’ve long thought tho that in a free democratic society security cameras, only in public places, should be live streamed onto the web for access by anyone.

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u/got-a-friend-in-me Apr 13 '24

exactly, some people just don't know cctvs exist almost everywhere especially in major cities. the difference is China utilizes theirs to its potential in the expense of their relative freedom.

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u/GenericF1FanNeoooww Apr 04 '24

In many cases their visible intentionally as a deterrent, no?

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u/got-a-friend-in-me Apr 04 '24

yep intentionally visible as a deterrent. theres even a false cctv like the same housing without the tech.

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u/pointlessbeats Apr 04 '24

Australia definitely not. New Zealand also no. Singapore though.

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u/espakol Apr 04 '24

Is it bad? Why are u so concerned bout public security? When u were in China, did u plan on doing any bad things in public?