Even though there is a camera in everyone’s hand, most people are still wary about big brother having a camera on every street corner. Photo by cottonbro from Pexels. And no country is pioneering universal surveillance via camera in quite the way that China is. That’s probably why no one really expected to see Chinese spy cameras, banned by the US government no less, on the streets of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. But that’s exactly what is going on and it has a lot of people scratching their heads as to why this happened. First off, the cameras were banned over worries