Editing Racial profiling (section)

===China===
The Chinese government has been using a [[Facial recognition system|facial recognition]] [[surveillance technology]], analysing [[physiognomical]] output of surveillance cameras to track and control [[Uyghurs]], a Muslim minority in China's Western province of [[Xinjiang]]. The extent of the vast system was published in the spring of 2019 by the NYT who called it "automated racism".<ref name="nyt0414">{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/14/technology/china-surveillance-artificial-intelligence-racial-profiling.html |title=One Month, 500,000 Face Scans: How China Is Using A.I. to Profile a Minority |last=Mozur |first=Paul |date=2019-04-14 |work=The New York Times |access-date=2019-12-04 |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> In research projects aided by European institutions it has combined the facial output with people's DNA, to create an ethnic profile. The DNA was collected at the prison camps, which are interning more than one million Uyghurs, as had been corroborated in November 2019 by data leaks, such as the [[China Cables]].<ref name="nyt123">{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/03/business/china-dna-uighurs-xinjiang.html |title=China Uses DNA to Map Faces, With Help From the West |last1=Wee |first1=Sui-Lee |date=2019-12-03 |work=The New York Times |access-date=2019-12-04 |last2=Mozur |first2=Paul |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55634388|title = Huawei patent mentions use of Uighur-spotting tech|work = BBC News|date = 13 January 2021}}</ref>