China Uses DNA to Track Its People, With the Help of American Expertise - The New York Times
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/21/business/china-xinjiang-uighur-dna-thermo-fisher.html
China using equipment from MA company for DNA based identification of minority ethnicities, for surveillance purposes, and submitting DNA data to public databases that were most likely obtained through misreprentation or coercion. There don't seem to be any safeguards against this sort of thing, only an expectation of adhering to “scientific norms.“
China using equipment from MA company for DNA based identification of minority ethnicities, for surveillance purposes, and submitting DNA data to public databases that were most likely obtained through misreprentation or coercion. There don't seem to be any safeguards against this sort of thing, only an expectation of adhering to “scientific norms.“