"Muslims in China’s Xinjiang were “arbitrarily” selected for arrest by a computer program that flagged suspicious behavior, rights campaigners said yesterday, in a report detailing big data’s role in repression in the restive region.

"Surveillance spending in Xinjiang has ballooned in the past few years, with facial recognition, iris scanners, DNA collection and artificial intelligence deployed across the region in the name of preventing terrorism."

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2020/12/10/2003748449

This is another example of 'the future now'. Before people didn't care too much about China's human rights violations - many still don't - so long as they keep it to within their own country.

But the internet takes it beyond the Chinese border. Data is being collected from all around the world and is ready to be weaponized when the time comes.