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
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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]. This is a factual case.
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