Joshua Wong 黃之鋒  😷Verified account

2/ They project of Hong Kong government invited three mainland-based laboratories: Sunrise Diagnostic Centre, China Dragon Inspection and Certification and Prenetics.

3/ One of the laboratories, Sunrise Diagnostic Centre, is owned by BGI that is subject to #US’s sanction for involving in human rights crackdown in #Xinjiang and collecting DNA data from #Uyghurs.

4/ China Dragon Inspection is state-run company, directly owned by China’s State‑owned Assets Supervision and Administration Communion. Local media @mingpaocom unveils that the company does not even have the certificate for laboratory testing.

5/ Worse still, just like #Huawei and #Tikkok, these three-China based companies are subject to China’s National Intelligence Law in 2017 that requires "any organization or citize n shall support, assist, and cooperate with state intelligence work according to law” (Art 7).

6/ It’s doubtful whether those Chinese labs can refuse to hand over their DNA data if #Beijing insists on taking the data. Not to mention that #China has already stationed its #secretpolice agency in #HongKong under #nationalsecuritylaw.

7/ Technically instead of sending to China, DNA data could be directly handed over to the city’s newly established #nationalsecurity agency. Also, there is a loophole in #Hongkong’s law on personal data, which fails to bar data transfer to #China.