Thermo Fisher, which among other products, manufactures DNA tests, has ended sales in Tibet. For years, human rights monitors have documented how DNA is being taken from the people of Tibet by the state in China. Experts fear the information will be used for “biometric profiling” and repressing the population there further. Host Carolyn Beeler talks with Emile Dirks of Citizen Lab about what Thermo Fisher’s withdrawal from Tibet means and what biometric profiling in Tibet looks like for everyday people.
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