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China: Big Data Fuels Crackdown in Minority Region
February 26, 2018
NEW YORK, Feb. 26 -- Human Rights Watch issued the following news release:

Chinese authorities are building and deploying a predictive policing program based on big data analysis in Xinjiang, Human Rights Watch said today. The program aggregates data about people - often without their knowledge - and flags those it deems potentially threatening to officials.

According to interviewees, some of those targeted are detained and sent to extralegal "political education c . . .

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