[redwards510]

It would be helpful to get some true, short stories about the path from harmless activity -> data collection -> re-education camp to show people in the rest of the world why their techie friends are always harping on the dangers of online tracking and the erosion of privacy. This is the depressing doomsday scenario we're all trying to avoid. It's already real and it's happening in a massive country with an eye towards expansion.

[rmah]

What if there aren't any such stories?

[andrei_says_]

From the article:

In Xinjiang, authorities have created a system that considers individuals suspicious based on broad and dubious criteria, and then generates lists of people to be evaluated by officials for detention. Official documents state that individuals “who ought to be taken, should be taken,” suggesting the goal is to maximize the number of people they find “untrustworthy” in detention. Such people are then subjected to police interrogation without basic procedural protections. They have no right to legal counsel, and some are subjected to torture and mistreatment, for which they have no effective redress, as we have documented in our September 2018 report. The result is Chinese authorities, bolstered by technology, arbitrarily and indefinitely detaining Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang en masse for actions and behavior that are not crimes under Chinese law.