Hi, I'm Siegel Samuel, filling in for Ariel Jim Ross. I'm a staff writer for Vox and I focus on technology and how it affects vulnerable populations. The other day I was doing some reading on my iPhone, as one does, and I clicked on to a new report. The title was Weigurs for sale.

Weigurs are a minority ethnic group in China. They're mostly Muslim, and they're concentrated in a

northwestern region called Xinjiang. Three years ago, China started sending Wiggers

to internment camps en masse.

I'm talking about an estimated 1 million people.

The new report was released by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.

It says that more than 80,000 Uyghurs have been transferred to factories in China,

where they're performing what likely amounts to forced labor.

And according to the report, these factories are in the supply chain of 83 major companies,

including tech giants like Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple.

In fact, the report suggested that the selfie cameras in the iPhone 8 and iPhone 10 may be made using Uyghur forced labor.

After reading that, I looked down at the iPhone 8 in my hand and thought, oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Am I complicit enforced labor?

Are we all complicit?

And what should we be doing as governments, tech companies, individual consumers,

to make sure the tech products we all love and use every day aren't costing somebody else their freedom.

This is reset. We're going to start with a little background on the Uyghur people themselves.

And for that, I talked to Darren Biler, an anthropologist at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

He studies surveillance systems in China.

I asked him why China has been targeting Uyghur people in particular.

The Uyghur homeland in northwest China is home to around 20% of China's natural gas and oil,

even a larger percentage of coal, and around 84% of Chinese cotton.

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