China Uses DNA to Map Faces: Control over ethnic Uighurs?
December 3rd, 2019NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/03/business/china-dna-uighurs-xinjiang.html?auth=login-email&emc=edit_th_191203%3Fcampaign_id%3D2&instance_id=14223&login=email&nl=todaysheadlines®i_id=230316431203&segment_id=19237&user_id=3687e92f198095ba3d1794e4b91748ea
“…..With a million or more ethnic Uighurs and others from predominantly Muslim minority groups swept up in detentions across Xinjiang, officials in Tumxuk have gathered blood samples from hundreds of Uighurs — part of a mass DNA collection effort……In the long term, experts say, it may even be possible for the Communist government to feed images produced from a DNA sample into the mass surveillance and facial recognition systems that it is building, tightening its grip on society by improving its ability to track dissidents and protesters as well as criminals.….”