The state is watching: In these cities, the majority of surveillance cameras are

Berlin is placed in the first League of the most heavily monitored by cameras cities in the world. How the market determined the observer the analyst house Comparitech, are in the German capital currently 17.464 of these monitoring devices. So 4,9 cameras come in a thousand inhabitants. The city occupies on the Spree river-rank 50 in the list of those cities in the world, in which the majority of digital surveillance cameras.

Stephan Finsterbusch

editor in the economy.

The all-in-all 150 cities covering the Ranking is led by the Chinese metropolis of Taiyuan. The capital of the Shanxi province currently has around 3.8 million inhabitants and about 500 kilometers southwest of Beijing. In your are 465,000 so-called Closed-circuit Televisions or, in short, CCTV on streets, squares, or buildings that are currently mounted. On one thousand inhabitants of Taiyuan 119 devices – a world record come with it.

Strict rules in Germany

The demand of the market for digital Video Surveillance has rocketed in the past ten years in the height. According to the analysts at Markets and Markets, the industry will redeem this year of 45 billion dollars, and rising. The sales are growing from year to year, more than 10 percent. In the year 2025, the manufacturer, supplier and service provider to redeem nearly $ 75 billion.

the advocates of such technology have welcomed the growing opportunities for the investigation of crimes, as well as the Monitoring associated preventive effects, the video is attributed to cameras. Critics fear, however, due to the wide use of a surveillance state of Orwellian proportions. They also fear the misuse of digital data. This could create a social climate of suspicion and stable societies to waver, the fear.

Thus, Germany has given strict rules and regulations for the Capture, Collect, and Analyze digital data. Several laws define who is allowed to about to use a Surveillance Video of who must use, who and where you are not allowed to use it. American technology companies are in favour of, to create similar conditions in the United States. China relies on the broad use to Monitor its population.

Permanent monitoring in China

in Principle, a distinction is made in all countries between the private and public video surveillance. There are currently no metropolis in the world, in the Video Monitoring plays no role. According to Comparitech of the world's 20 most by cameras controlled cities of 18 in China. Only London (rank 3 with 67,4 cameras per thousand citizens), and the Indian of Hyderabad (rank 16 29.9 cameras per thousand citizens) with keep.

The analysts values, to create your Rankings in both official information provided by the authorities, but also surveys by independent organizations and press reports. So are globally used currently 770 million "digital spies". The forecasts of IHS, Markit, according to will be in the coming year, for the first time, a billion cameras for Surveillance in operation. About half of this is attributable to the middle Kingdom.