Science and Surveillance: Western Institutions Consider Role in China’s Uighur Crackdown

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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. This is a factual case.

For whom is this important?

Researchers

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When

• 2019

Where

• China

Virtues & Values

• Respect
• Accountability

Good Practices & Misconduct

• Big Data
• Blood Collection
• Consent
• Profiling
• Big Data
• Ethnic Minorities
• Consent

Research Area

• Health biotechnology