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CCP May Collect Top American Athletes' DNA At Beijing Olympics, Experts Say

• by Dorothy Li and Joshua Philipp

Patricia Adams, executive director of Canada-based non-profit Probe International, said "it's a very likely possibility" that the CCP will be collecting top-performing athletes' DNA at the Games.

"They [CCP] are doing the testing every day … and [there's] absolutely no oversight over the use of the products that they're getting," Adams said during a Jan. 26 webinar on EpochTV's "Unmasking Communist China" program.

In the online event, Stephen Yates, chief executive of consultancy firm DC International Advisory, spoke of the threat posed by the Chinese regime's mass collection of personal information and health data. U.S. officials and experts have previously sounded the alarm that Beijing is amassing a large database that includes Americans' personal and health information, which could be used to enhance artificial intelligence systems and fields of medicine, as well as assist in espionage and military operations.

The danger, Yates said, lies in the CCP using the mass data set for unethical purposes.

"China has weaponized artificial intelligence and a lot of other studies of the human process in ways that civilized countries wouldn't even allow, so we don't have any way to really know what this dark window of the future might be," he said.

According to Yates, CCP may use the massive data set to give their athletes a competitive advantage or increase opportunities for psychological warfare.

The Winter Olympics is set to open in Beijing on Feb 4. The diplomatic boycotts announced by the United States and a spate of other countries, which is meant to hold the communist regime accountable for its human rights violations in Xinjiang, don't keep athletes from competing at the Games.


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