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Indian Court Summons Alibaba's Jack Ma for Sacking Indian Employee who Opposes the Company's Censorship System and Fake News Dissemination

The relation of China and India remains tense. The Indian government recently banned the use of the Chinese-owned Alibaba’s “UC news” and “UC Browser” due to national security concern.

The Reuters reported on 26 July, 2020, Indian court had summoned the founder of Alibaba, Jack Ma, to be testified in court, as he was allegedly involved in an unreasonable dismissal of an Indian employed in “UC Browser”. According to this former employee, Pushpandra Singh Parmar, he was fired due to his opposition towards the company app’s censorship system and dissemination of fake news. After facing an unreasonable dismissal, he filed the case to the court, seeking for a 268,000 USD (around 2.08 million HKD) compensation.

According to the news, in Parmar’s 200-page indictment, he showed captured screenshots and accused “UC Browser” and “UC News” of publishing fake news, creating social and political instability.

Also, he attached a list of Indian and English words which were labeled "sensitive" by the “UC Browser”. These included “Indian-Chinese boundary”, “Indian-Chinese war”, etc, indicating that the censorship system will automatically or manually refuse to publish the relevant content.

Source: Stand News #Jul26
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Mass COVID-19 testing = DNA database

Although Prenetics was founded in Hong Kong, it has received 40 million USD in capital investment from Chinese companies like Alibaba. The company specialises in Circle DNA technology* and provides genetic testing services. A drop of saliva is enough to detect DNA using their test kit. Their advertisement with Watson's even claimed that a single drop of saliva could be used for more than 500 tests. The COVID-19 testing that you see people lining up for on TV are the ones using their Circle DNA technology.
 
According to a 2017 report by the Wall Street Journal, law enforcement agencies in some parts of China have already collected their citizens DNA information along with other biometric data, including fingerprints, facial features and voice signatures. They connected these to people's daily activities (e.g. online purchases, entertainment habits) to facilitate surveillance by public security and to successfully solve crimes.
 
According to a 2019 report by XG01 [recte HK01], the US police used DNA to solve a crime. [HK01] made a diagram explaining how DNA samples aided the police in solving the case, so we could better understand the process.

Editor's Note:
* The original writer mistook Circle DNA for a type of technology. It is a product offered by Prenetics that uses whole exome sequencing technology.

Source: 612 reminder TG Channel
https://t.me/reminder612/26793
Translated by: Hong Kong Echo

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