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> Uighurs are required to install government-designed tracking apps on their smartphones, which monitor their online contacts and the web pages they’ve visited
by mortenjorck 8y ago
> Uighurs are required to install government-designed tracking apps on their smartphones, which monitor their online contacts and the web pages they’ve visited.
Appalling as this is, I'm surprised the government needs to do this at all, given the assumption that WeChat or Tencent would already have all this information and be required to make it readily available. Then again, maybe the visible intrusiveness is the point: Han get spied on invisibly through social media and mobile carriers; Uighurs have mandatory app installs to constantly remind them who's in charge.
- jhayward 8y agoIt may be simple expediency: there are many stories of Uighur people being stopped by police and having to show them their phones. The app may be a pragmatic way to facilitate that interaction without need for central monitoring (which is probably also used).