Summary of Darren Byler's In the Camps

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Get the Summary of Darren Byler's In the Camps in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Novel forms of state violence and colonization have been unfolding for years in China’s vast northwestern region, where more than a million and a half Uyghurs and others have vanished into internment camps and associated factories. Based on hours of interviews with camp survivors and workers, thousands of government documents, and over a decade of research, Darren Byler, one of the leading experts on Uyghur society and Chinese surveillance systems, uncovers how a vast network of technology provided by private companies—facial surveillance, voice recognition, smartphone data—enabled the state and corporations to blacklist millions of Uyghurs because of their religious and cultural practice starting in 2017. Charged with “pre-crimes” that sometimes consist only of installing social media apps, detainees were put in camps to “study”—forced to praise the Chinese government, renounce Islam, disavow families, and labor in factories. Byler travels back to Xinjiang to reveal how the convenience of smartphones have doomed the Uyghurs to catastrophe, and makes the case that the technology is being used all over the world, sold by tech companies from Beijing to Seattle producing new forms of unfreedom for vulnerable people around the world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Dec 6, 2021
• ISBN: 9781669341765

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In the past, the Chinese government has used facial recognition technology to identify and track Muslims.

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The region of Xinjiang is located in northwest China, bordering eight countries. It is about the size of Alaska and has a population of 11 million, of which 80 percent are Uyghurs.

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The region has also become a source of around 20 percent of China's oil and natural gas, and a quarter