Chinese Collecting Biometrics in Tibet for Surveillance, Not Crime or Terrorism: Canadian Study Submitted to UN

Chinese police collecting massive amounts of biometric data in provinces with mostly ethnic minorities are using the data not against crime or terrorism but for social control, according to a report from The Citizen Lab submitted to the United Nations rights rapporteur. While the two mass biometric data collection programs in Tibet and Qinghai Province are led by Chinese public security organs, an analysis of publicly available sources from the Chinese regime shows that these programs are “unconnected to investigations into criminal or terrorist activity and do not appear to be specifically authorized by Chinese law,” according to the University of Toronto-based research institute....