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|Title=Science and Surveillance: Western Institutions Consider Role in China’s Uighur Crackdown | |Title=Science and Surveillance: Western Institutions Consider Role in China’s Uighur Crackdown | ||
| − | |Is About=. | + | |Is About=This case is about using genetic material from the oppressed Uighur minority group in China to develop next-generation surveillance tools that could allow authorities to construct an image of someone’s face from information in their DNA<ref>https://undark.org/2019/12/06/abstracts-dna-surveillance-china/</ref> |
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| + | |Important Because=It is important to look at this case ethically. The Chinese government had forced more than one million Uighurs into a vast, secretive network of internment camps to collect DNA<ref>https://undark.org/2019/12/06/abstracts-dna-surveillance-china/</ref> | ||
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|Has Location=China | |Has Location=China | ||
|Has Virtue And Value=Respect; Accountability | |Has Virtue And Value=Respect; Accountability | ||
| − | |Has Good Practice And Misconduct=Big Data; Blood Collection; Consent | + | |Has Good Practice And Misconduct=Big Data; Blood Collection; Consent; Profiling; Big Data; Ethnic Minorities; Consent |
|Related To Research Area=Health biotechnology | |Related To Research Area=Health biotechnology | ||
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Science and Surveillance: Western Institutions Consider Role in China’s Uighur Crackdown
What is this about?
This case is about using genetic material from the oppressed Uighur minority group in China to develop next-generation surveillance tools that could allow authorities to construct an image of someone’s face from information in their DNA[1]
Why is this important?
It is important to look at this case ethically. The Chinese government had forced more than one million Uighurs into a vast, secretive network of internment camps to collect DNA[2]
