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Reverse Engineering a Xinjiang Police Mass Surveillance App

2019177 points22 comments Security & Privacy details

This report presents new evidence about the surveillance state in Xinjiang, where the government has subjected 13 million Turkic Muslims to heightened repression as part of its “Strike Hard Campaign against Violent Terrorism.” Between January 2018 and February 2019, Human Rights Watch was able to reverse engineer the…