China’s Xinjiang surveillance pre-identified Uyghurs as terrorists through algorithmic data mining

Evidence

Before her arrest, the state tracked every terrestrial and virtual footstep Jelilova Gulbahar left behind. Every online purchase and social media exchange, every phone conversation and checkpoint stop supplied the state with a fluid stream of data, data fed into a policing algorithm that led to Jelilova’s identification as a “terrorist.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 531

Categorization

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