{"id":5518,"date":"2018-02-28T13:04:42","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T13:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/5518-hrw-china-fuels-crackdown-in-minority-region\/"},"modified":"2018-02-28T13:04:42","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T13:04:42","slug":"hrw-china-fuels-crackdown-in-minority-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/5518-hrw-china-fuels-crackdown-in-minority-region\/","title":{"rendered":"HRW: China fuels crackdown in minority region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese authorities are building and deploying a predictive policing program based on big data analysis in Xinjiang, Human Rights Watch said on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>Chinese authorities are building and deploying a predictive policing program based on big data analysis in Xinjiang, Human Rights Watch said on Monday.\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>The program aggregates data about people \u2013 often without their knowledge \u2013 and flags those it deems potentially threatening to officials.<\/h4>\n<h4>According to interviewees, some of those targeted are detained and sent to extralegal \u201cpolitical education centers\u201d where they are held indefinitely without charge or trial, and can be subject to abuse.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cFor the first time, we are able to demonstrate that the Chinese government\u2019s use of big data and predictive policing not only blatantly violates privacy rights, but also enables officials to arbitrarily detain people,\u201d said Maya Wang, senior China researcher at Human Rights Watch. \u201cPeople in Xinjiang can\u2019t resist or challenge the increasingly intrusive scrutiny of their daily lives because most don\u2019t even know about this \u2018black box\u2019 program or how it works.\u201d<\/h4>\n<h4>Human Rights Watch said Xinjiang authorities in recent years have increased mass surveillance measures across the region, augmenting existing tactics with the latest technologies.<\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese authorities are building and deploying a predictive policing program based on big data analysis in Xinjiang, Human Rights Watch said on Monday.\u00a0 \u00a0 Chinese authorities are building and deploying a predictive policing program based on big data analysis in Xinjiang, Human Rights Watch said on Monday.\u00a0 The program aggregates data about people \u2013 often &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[125,1104,71,347],"class_list":["post-5518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-china","tag-data","tag-human-rights-watch","tag-police"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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