Big Brother and big data at work in Xinjiang

02/12/2019 48 min
Big Brother and big data at work in Xinjiang

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Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, the China reporter for Axios and the lead reporter of an explosive piece that details the Chinese government's ongoing oppression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, is our guest this week. Her report, titled Exposed: China’s Operating Manuals for Mass Internment and Arrest by Algorithm, exposes what she describes as a "manual for operating the camps," and reveals how Chinese police are using big data to imprison those deemed dangerous in Xinjiang.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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