The COVID tech that is intimately tied to China’s surveillance state

From concentration camp to Amazon Warehouse. Heat-sensing cameras and face recognition systems may help fight coronavirus, but they also make many companies complicit in the high-tech oppression of Uyghurs. In this excerpt of his new book, “In the Camps”, Darren Byler - an assistant professor of International Studies - reveals how mass incarceration and rights abuses in Xinjiang have close ties to American tech companies too, and reflects on the issues that the world’s powers have with surveillance.