"Colonial racial capitalism": China's mass surveillance in Xinjiang made the country a leading exporter of digital forensics, superseded only by Israel and the US

The hundreds of millions of dollars invested in Xinjiang surveillance created a system of digital enclosure that is part of the structure of dispossession that confronts Uyghurs, but the regime in Beijing wants the data of the colonized, too, a researcher says. This collection of data has significant consequences for the expansion of dataveillance instruments globally.