China Uses DNA to Track Its People, With the Help of American Expertise
The
Chinese authorities turned to a Massachusetts company and a prominent
Yale researcher as they built an enormous system of surveillance and
control.
"Mr. Imin was one of millions of people caught up in a vast Chinese
campaign of surveillance and oppression. To give it teeth, the Chinese
authorities are collecting DNA — and they got unlikely corporate and
academic help from the United States to do it."
