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grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Thu Dec 16 19:11:10 PST 2021


US blacklists very same things US and its companies are
rolling out against its own citizens and the world.



US Blacklists Chinese Biotech Groups For DNA Collection Technology &
Mass Surveillance

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-to-blacklist-more-chinese-tech-companies-over-surveillance-11639663210
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/us-blacklist-chinese-companies-uyghur-muslim-minority-biotech-dji-biden-2021-12
https://twitter.com/W7VOA/status/1159278023973244929
https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-snares-innocent-and-guilty-alike-to-build-worlds-biggest-dna-database-1514310353

The Biden administration on Thursday announced it has placed China's
Academy of Military Medical Sciences along with 11 other institutes
involved in biotechnology on an export blacklist for their involvement
in assisting the Communist government's oppression and surveillance of
its Muslim Uighur population.

Among other things the companies' advanced technology is used for DNA
collection as a key social control measure in the Xinjiang region, as
part of efforts to use genetic technology to further mass surveillance
capabilities. "These actions come in the broader context of the
administration’s efforts to address the misuse of technology to
surveil and in many cases…to exercise large scale repressive social
control," a senior Biden administration official told The Wall Street
Journal.
Image: Associated Press

Further the Treasury Department was cited as saying the "action
highlights how private firms in China’s defense and surveillance
technology sectors are actively cooperating with the government’s
efforts to persecute ethnic minorities."

Included in the blacklist of entities that US firms can no longer
invest in are commercial drone-making giant DJI Technology Co. and
government linked facial-recognition technology development companies.
It follows on the heels of prior sanctions days ago, most notably
against the large facial recognition company SenseTime.

Additionally making the list are the facial recognition software
start-up company Megvii, as well as Dawning Information Industry,
which provides supercomputer-based cloud-computing services in
Xinjiang. Commerce and Treasury's growing list of banned Chinese
military-industrial complex companies will by the end of this week
reach almost 70.

In some notable instances the sanctions saw immediate effect:
"SenseTime said this week it would postpone its $767 million initial
public offering in Hong Kong, after reports the Chinese artificial
intelligence company was being put on the US investment blacklist,"
according to reports.

Years ago, The Wall Street Journal and others began investigating
Beijing's attempts to build the world's largest ever DNA security
database, which could ensnare the "innocent and guilty alike"...

    Police in Guangdong province take mouth swabs from bus passengers,
prompting fears of a nationwide DNA collection program in #China,
reports @RadioFreeAsia. https://t.co/RI3OKvMZG6
pic.twitter.com/FzHnFlsK2V
    — Steve Herman (@W7VOA) August 8, 2019

"The police collected a lot more names they could add to the world’s
biggest DNA database, an essential part of China’s high-tech security
blanket being unfurled across the country as Beijing seeks to better
monitor its 1.4 billion citizens," one prior report said. "Nationwide,
police have a goal of almost doubling China’s current DNA trove to 100
million records by 2020, according to a Wall Street Journal
examination of documents from police departments across China. To get
there, they need to gather almost as many records each year as are in
the entire national database the U.S. has built over two decades."


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