{"id":9920,"date":"2020-06-17T20:12:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T17:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/china-allegedly-collecting-dna-samples-for-surveillance-using-us-tech\/"},"modified":"2020-06-17T20:12:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T17:12:00","slug":"china-allegedly-collecting-dna-samples-for-surveillance-using-us-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/china-allegedly-collecting-dna-samples-for-surveillance-using-us-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"#China allegedly collecting DNA samples for surveillance using US tech"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#China allegedly collecting DNA samples for surveillance using US tech<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n China\u2019s Communist government is collecting blood samples from 700 million men and boys to augment its massive surveillance operation targeting the country\u2019s own citizens, a new report said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Police have fanned out across the country since late 2017 to collect enough samples to build a huge DNA database, according to a study out Wednesday by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, The New York Times reported.<\/p>\n

The database would enable authorities from the hardline Chinese Communist Party to track down any man\u2019s male relatives using only that man\u2019s blood, saliva or other genetic material, the paper reported.<\/p>\n

And an American company, the Waltham, Massachusetts-based Thermo Fisher, is lending a hand, selling testing kits to the Chinese police that specifically meet their demands.<\/p>\n

US lawmakers have criticized Thermo Fisher for selling equipment to the Chinese authorities, but the company defended its deal.<\/p>\n

The company said in a statement to The Times that its DNA kits \u201care the global standard for forensic DNA testing\u201d and that it recognized \u201cthe importance of considering how our products and services are used \u2014 or may be used \u2014 by our customers.\u201d<\/p>\n

The US company also sells DNA kits to law enforcement agencies in other countries as well.<\/p>\n

But the project is viewed as a major escalation of China\u2019s efforts to use DNA tracking to control its people.<\/p>\n

The government had already been tracking ethnic minorities such as the Muslim Uighurs and other groups perceived as hostile or a threat to the Party, according to the study.<\/p>\n

It would also enhance the country\u2019s already sophisticated surveillance operation, which includes high-tech cameras, facial recognition and artificial intelligence to clamp down on anti-government activity by groups or individuals.<\/p>\n

The police say they need the database to catch criminals and that donors consent to handing over their DNA \u2014 a questionable claim in a country where even peaceful dissent is not tolerated.<\/p>\n

Human rights groups within and outside of China decried the beefed-up surveillance.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ability of the authorities to discover who is most intimately related to whom, given the context of the punishment of entire families as a result of one person\u2019s activism, is going to have a chilling effect on society as a whole,\u201d said Maya Wang, a China researcher for Human Rights Watch.<\/p>\n

And those who have been forced to provide samples say they had no choice.<\/p>\n

The authorities told Jiang Haolin, 31, a computer engineer from northern China, that \u201cif blood wasn\u2019t collected, we would be listed as a \u2018black household,\u2019\u201d he said, and he and his family would lose benefits such as the right to travel<\/a> and go to a hospital if they were sick or injured.<\/p>\n

But China insists the DNA collection is the result of violent crime.<\/p>\n

For example, for nearly three decades, the police in a part of Mongolia investigated the rapes and murders of 11 women and girls.<\/p>\n

They collected 230,000 fingerprints and scrutinized more than 100,000 DNA samples.<\/p>\n

In 2016, they busted a man on bribery charges, the state news<\/a> media<\/a> reported, and an analysis of his genes showed he was related to a person who had left his DNA at the site of the 2005 killing of one of the women.<\/p>\n

That man, Gao Chengyong, confessed to the crimes and was later executed, The Times reported.<\/p>\n

China already has the world\u2019s largest collection of genetic material, totaling 80 million profiles, according to state media.<\/p>\n

But the new effort to build up a national database of males\u2019 DNA broadens those efforts, said Emile Dirks, an author of the report from the Australian institute.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are seeing the expansion of those models to the rest of China in an aggressive way that I don\u2019t think we\u2019ve seen before,\u201d Dirks said.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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