[The city's largest-ever DNA collection by #China]
1. Starting from today, #Beijing will send medical personnel from China to #HK for mass testing. Just like #nationalsecuritylaw legislation, the decision is unilaterally imposed without public consultation.
1. Starting from today, #Beijing will send medical personnel from China to #HK for mass testing. Just like #nationalsecuritylaw legislation, the decision is unilaterally imposed without public consultation.
2. Up to now, Beijing and #hkgov fail to provide details primarily about how DNA samples will be used during and after test, and whether those samples collected will be sent to Mainland afterwards.
3. Worse still, even the city’s head in charge of controlling #covid19 never heard of the plan. As a result, it casts more doubts on whether #China is imposing genetic surveillance in #HK while #hkpolice recently took DNA swabs of #hkprotesters under sweeping #nationalsecuritylaw
4. In fact, since 2017, China has built a nationwide database of DNA samples. In the pretext of free health checks, blood samples from millions of Uyghurs were gathered without consent. nytimes.com/2020/06/17/wor…
5. DNA samples are used for tracking ethnic minorities and dissidents and also added to its sophisticated facial recognition systems, as per reports. As China is paving ways to extend its surveillance systems to #Hongkong, it is worrying that HK might soon become Xinjiang.
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