Cisco Systems is helping the Chinese government build a massive surveillance system that will include more than 500,000 cameras. The Wall Street Journal reported that the "Peaceful Chongqing" project gets around US restrictions on US companies helping repressive foreign governments because it is billed as an "anti-crime" network.
TechEye reported that several other companies had bid for the project including Hewlett-Packard. But that the deal deserves scrutiny: