China's New Participatory Citizen Surveillance

China's Public Ministry of Public Security has launched "an ID service where mobile phone users can send text messages to a government ID database as a way to confirm a person's identity," according to the China Digital Times. This service is also available through the internet.

[via Smart Mobs.

emily | 7:42 AM | SMS used by the Police |
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