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Chinese border guards put secret surveillance app on tourists' phones
Source: The Guardian
Chinese border guards put secret surveillance app on tourists' phones
Software extracts emails, texts and contacts and could be used to track movements
Hilary Osborne and Sam Cutler
Tue 2 Jul 2019 16.00 BST Last modified on Tue 2 Jul 2019 19.45 BST
Chinese border police are secretly installing surveillance apps on the phones of visitors and downloading personal information as part of the government’s intensive scrutiny of the remote Xinjiang region, the Guardian can reveal.
The Chinese government has curbed freedoms in the province for the local Muslim population, installing facial recognition cameras on streets and in mosques and reportedly forcing residents to download software that searches their phones.
An investigation by the Guardian and international partners has found that travellers are being targeted when they attempt to enter the region from neighbouring Kyrgyzstan.
Border guards are taking their phones and secretly installing an app that extracts emails, texts and contacts, as well as information about the handset itself.
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Software extracts emails, texts and contacts and could be used to track movements
Hilary Osborne and Sam Cutler
Tue 2 Jul 2019 16.00 BST Last modified on Tue 2 Jul 2019 19.45 BST
Chinese border police are secretly installing surveillance apps on the phones of visitors and downloading personal information as part of the government’s intensive scrutiny of the remote Xinjiang region, the Guardian can reveal.
The Chinese government has curbed freedoms in the province for the local Muslim population, installing facial recognition cameras on streets and in mosques and reportedly forcing residents to download software that searches their phones.
An investigation by the Guardian and international partners has found that travellers are being targeted when they attempt to enter the region from neighbouring Kyrgyzstan.
Border guards are taking their phones and secretly installing an app that extracts emails, texts and contacts, as well as information about the handset itself.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/02/chinese-border-guards-surveillance-app-tourists-phones
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