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Chinese Government Forces Residents To Install Surveillance App With Awful Security
▻https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ne94dg/jingwang-app-no-encryption-china-force-install-urumqi-xinjiang

Last year, authorities told residents of a Muslim-populated part of China to install JingWang, an app that scans for certain files. Now, researchers have found it transfers the collected data with no encryption. In Xinjiang, a part of western China that a Muslim minority population calls home, the government forces residents to install an Android app that scans devices for particular files. Now, cybersecurity researchers have found that the so-called JingWang app has horrendous security (...)

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Pékin renforce sa pression sur les Ouïghours en traquant leurs smartphones
▻http://www.numerama.com/politique/278975-pekin-renforce-sa-pression-sur-les-ouighours-en-traquant-leurs-smar

En février 2017, la surveillance généralisée des véhicules de la préfecture de Bayin’gholin soulignait le renforcement de la pression chinoise sur les Ouïghours. La minorité musulmane serait aujourd’hui de nouveau ciblée par une politique de surveillance des télécommunications instaurée par le régime, qui forcerait ses membres à utiliser une application mouchard sur leurs téléphones. Reculée, étendue et peu peuplée, la région du Xianjiang n’en reste pas moins l’une des plus surveillée de Chine. Il ne faut (...)

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China Orders Xinjiang’s Android Users to Install App That Deletes ’Terrorist’ Content
▻http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/china-orders-xinjiangs-android-users-to-install-app-that-deletes-terrorist-cont

Authorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang have ordered local residents to install an app on their cell phones that will monitor their activity for “terrorist” content, local sources told RFA on Thursday. "In order to achieve city-wide coverage in the antiterrorist video and audio clean-up, and to target people, materials and thinking for clean-up work, management and crackdowns, a technology company affiliated with the municipal police department has developed an app for Android (...)

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