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from the 1984-was-not-supposed-to-be-an-instruction-manual dept.
http://mashable.com/2017/07/21/china-spyware-xinjiang/
China has ramped up surveillance measures in Xinjiang, home to much of its Muslim minority population, according to reports from Radio Free Asia.
Authorities sent out a notice over a week ago instructing citizens to install a "surveillance app" on their phones, and are conducting spot checks in the region to ensure that residents have it.
— Delinda Tien (@TienDelinda) July 14, 2017
The notice, written in Uyghur and Chinese, was sent by WeChat to residents in Urumqi, Xinjiang's capital.
Android users were instructed to scan the QR code in order to install the Jingwang app that would, as authorities claimed, "automatically detect terrorist and illegal religious videos, images, e-books and electronic documents" stored in the phone. If illegal content was detected, users would be ordered to delete them.
Users who deleted, or did not install the app, would be detained for up to 10 days, according to social media users.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 06 2017, @10:39AM (1 child)
Yes, we have all the alt-wrongs, the 3 %, the Neo-Nazis, the Richard Spencer, Glenn Beck, InfoWars subscribers, people who up-mod jmorris on SoylentNews, yes, all these and many more, including Hairyfeet (but only because of his Challenge, we have an office pool on that one), and Goldbugs, the KKK, and the CCC, and Jeff Sessions and Paul Ryan and Rand Paul, all these we have required to have smart phones so they can be tracked. Of course, we are not so stupid as the Chinese, with their long tradition of imperial edicts, to actually make a law or something about this. We just invest in Apple. And Google. And jmorris.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 06 2017, @01:31PM
wow, no one in my office reads soylent except for me. Hairyfeet would not be a known entity and moreso of an ailment; this could be true in context here as well come to think of it.
I did catch a guy reading the other site, but he was young and not aware of how it used to be.