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Trojan Apps: Uyghur Surveillance Campaign by Beijing

A new report by Lookout Threat Intelligence has revealed that China has been using malware tools to keep track of Uyghur people. This surveillance activity was observed as far back as 2013. Four Android tools are used in the trojan apps hacking campaign — SilkBean, CarbonSteal, DoubleAgent, and GoldenEagle. Crushing the Uyghurs using trojan apps ...

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A Uyghur man using his smartphone.

Beware When Traveling to China: Authorities Hacking Tourists’ Phones

The fact that Communist China has a high-tech surveillance system that constantly keeps watch over its citizens 24/7 is well known. However, several media outlets are now reporting that this surveillance extends to visitors as well, with authorities hacking their phones. Visitors under surveillance through hacking phones Tourists to China’s border regions like Xinjiang are ...

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A street in Xinjiang.

China Using Smartphone App to Keep Track of Xinjiang Minorities

China is known for subjecting the Uyghur and Kazakh minorities of Xinjiang to brutal surveillance that puts them under constant watch as if they were a bunch of terrorists. Human Rights Watch has analyzed a government app, the Integrated Joint Operations Platform (IJOP), and found how police authorities are using it to monitor people in ...

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Smartphone app to track Uyghurs.