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February 9, 2021 Statement

Submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on China

80th pre-session

December 9, 2020 Report

China: Big Data Program Targets Xinjiang’s Muslims

Leaked List of Over 2,000 Detainees Demonstrates Automated Repression

2020 Badiucao for Human Rights Watch
April 1, 2020 Commentary

China: Fighting COVID-19 With Automated Tyranny

Government Response Hinged on Invasive New Surveillance Methods

A security guard monitors people through his augmented reality eyewear equipped with an infrared temperature detector in Hangzhou, China, March 24, 2020.
August 16, 2019 Commentary

Data Leviathan: China’s Burgeoning Surveillance State

A Chinese national flag flutters near surveillance cameras mounted on a lamp post in Beijing, March 15, 2019.
May 1, 2019 Interview

Interview: China’s ‘Big Brother’ App

Unprecedented View into Mass Surveillance of Xinjiang’s Muslims

Images of the IJOP surveillance phone app used in Xinjiang, China.
December 26, 2018 Commentary

China’s Bumbling Police State

The only thing protecting human rights from the bureaucracy? Inefficiency.

A checkpoint in Turpan, Xinjiang. Some of Xinjiang’s checkpoints are equipped with special machines that, in addition to recognizing people through their ID cards or facial recognition, are also vacuuming up people’s identifying information from their
April 18, 2018 Commentary

Cambridge Analytica, Big Data and China

A man is pictured at the venue of China International Big Data Industry Expo in Guiyang, Guizhou province May 27, 2017.
February 26, 2018 News Release

China: Big Data Fuels Crackdown in Minority Region

Predictive Policing Program Flags Individuals for Investigations, Detentions

Chinese police patrol a night market near Id Kah Mosque in Xinjiang, a day before the Eid al-Fitr holiday, June 25, 2017.
December 13, 2017 News Release

China: Minority Region Collects DNA from Millions

Private Information Gathered by Police, Under Guise of Public Health Program

201712asia_china_xinjiang A mural in Xinjiang reads "Stability is a blessing, Instability is a calamity," Yarkand, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China on September 20, 2012.
December 12, 2017 Commentary

China’s Chilling ‘Social Credit’ Blacklist

A lawyer is barred from buying a plane ticket because a court found his apology ‘insincere.’

A display shows surveillance technology capable of analyzing body motion for specific actions like fighting, theft or fall during Security China 2018 in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018.
November 19, 2017 News Release

China: Police ‘Big Data’ Systems Violate Privacy, Target Dissent

Automated Systems Track People Authorities Claim ‘Threatening’

Security cameras are seen on a building at the Bund in front of the financial district of Pudong in Shanghai on March 6, 2015.
October 22, 2017 News Release

China: Voice Biometric Collection Threatens Privacy

Police, AI Giant Collaboration in Legal Gray Area

A man talks on the phone in Beijing, China, March 2, 2017.
August 18, 2017 Commentary

China’s Dystopian Push to Revolutionize Surveillance

People check their phones during the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, China, November 17, 2016.
May 15, 2017 News Release

China: Police DNA Database Threatens Privacy

40 Million Profiled Includes Dissidents, Migrants, Muslim Uyghurs

China: Police DNA Database Threatens Privacy PHOTO

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