How do you say 1984 in Mandarin?

Holy fucking shit this is scary. Apparently a US firm is working with the Chinese government to track/spy on all of it's citizens in Shenzen province. There will be cameras tracking people and cards that each person must carry with their life history installed in a chip within. Fuck me.

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/08/12/us_tech_firm_behind_.html

Good to know that our government would never do something even remotely scary like this... What's that old thing about the frog and the pot of water?