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China Forces Muslim Minority to Install Spyware on Their Phones

25-7-2017 < Blacklisted News 69 57 words
 

Chinese authorities in the province of Xinjiang are forcing locals of the Uyghur Muslim minority to install an app on their phones that will allow the government to scan their device for "terrorist propaganda," local media reports. In reality, the app creates MD5 hashes for the user's files and matches them against a database of known terrorist content.

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