The database could be used for any purpose.
published by Human Rights Watch on September 5, Chinese authorities are collecting DNA samples through finger-prick devices from Tibetan residents across the Tibet Autonomous Region . It’s stated that residents are not allowed to decline the police’s request, and people don’t have to be criminal suspects to be asked for their samples, while children at kindergartens were asked to submit their DNAs without their parents’ consent.
Police have been conducting a mass DNA collection program since 2016 until now, according to another research. Analyzing 100 public sources, the lab found out that police may have collected between roughly 919,282 and 1,206,962 DNA samples from 2016 to 2022. The total amount of samples belongs to 25.1% to 32.9% of Tibet’s population, which is 3.66 million.
“It’s tied into larger attempts by the police to hoover up as much data from the public as they can,” Emile Dirks, author of the Citizen Lab’s report, told VICE World News.“It’s possible for police to use this completed population database for whatever purpose they see fit,” Dirks added. China’s Ministry of Public Security has set up a system called “a male ancestry investigation” to deal with crimes since 2017 and has been collecting family records and genetic data from five to ten percent of its male citizens,“China now has the world’s largest forensic DNA database and appears to be the only country in the world where police are harvesting en masse DNA samples outside the scope of criminal investigations,” James Leibold, a professor at La Trobe University in Melbourne, told...
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