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India Bans Nearly 60 Chinese Apps, Including TikTok and WeChat
// India government banned nearly 60 Chinese mobile apps on Monday, including TikTok, citing national security concerns
//While India has vowed to retaliate, it lags far behind China in military and economic power, leaving it with few options. But Chinese telecommunication and social networking companies have long eyed India’s giant market and its enormous potential.
//The Chinese apps were “stealing and surreptitiously transmitting users’ data in an unauthorized manner to servers which have locations outside India,”
//“The compilation of these data, its mining and profiling by elements hostile to national security and defense of India, which ultimately impinges upon the sovereignty and integrity of India, is a matter of very deep and immediate concern which requires emergency measures,”
//This month’s border brawl was the worst violence between the two nuclear-armed countries in more than 50 years.
//Cybersecurity analysts have warned in the past about the risks Chinese apps and telecom companies may pose, citing the country’s National Intelligence Law. The law holds Chinese companies legally responsible for providing access, cooperation or support for Chinese intelligence gathering.
//while the Indian government has had longstanding worries that Chinese companies are dominating local markets and are beating out Indian app developers, it also has national security concerns about what China does with the data it collects.
//Internet researchers have long warned that competing national interests could lead to a more fractured internet, with people’s access to certain information and services limited by their governments.
Full article: The New York Times,(29-Jun)
Further reading:
PM Modi quits Chinese app Weibo, message loud and clear, says BJP
https://indianexpress.com/article/india/pm-modi-quits-weibo-chinese-app-6485545/
#India #China #Tiktok #WeChat #apps #military #cybersecurity #datacollect
India Bans Nearly 60 Chinese Apps, Including TikTok and WeChat
// India government banned nearly 60 Chinese mobile apps on Monday, including TikTok, citing national security concerns
//While India has vowed to retaliate, it lags far behind China in military and economic power, leaving it with few options. But Chinese telecommunication and social networking companies have long eyed India’s giant market and its enormous potential.
//The Chinese apps were “stealing and surreptitiously transmitting users’ data in an unauthorized manner to servers which have locations outside India,”
//“The compilation of these data, its mining and profiling by elements hostile to national security and defense of India, which ultimately impinges upon the sovereignty and integrity of India, is a matter of very deep and immediate concern which requires emergency measures,”
//This month’s border brawl was the worst violence between the two nuclear-armed countries in more than 50 years.
//Cybersecurity analysts have warned in the past about the risks Chinese apps and telecom companies may pose, citing the country’s National Intelligence Law. The law holds Chinese companies legally responsible for providing access, cooperation or support for Chinese intelligence gathering.
//while the Indian government has had longstanding worries that Chinese companies are dominating local markets and are beating out Indian app developers, it also has national security concerns about what China does with the data it collects.
//Internet researchers have long warned that competing national interests could lead to a more fractured internet, with people’s access to certain information and services limited by their governments.
Full article: The New York Times,(29-Jun)
Further reading:
PM Modi quits Chinese app Weibo, message loud and clear, says BJP
https://indianexpress.com/article/india/pm-modi-quits-weibo-chinese-app-6485545/
#India #China #Tiktok #WeChat #apps #military #cybersecurity #datacollect
NY Times
India Bans Nearly 60 Chinese Apps, Including TikTok and WeChat (Published 2020)
The move is part of the tit-for-tat retaliation after the Indian and Chinese militaries clashed earlier this month.
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How China uses malware to track Muslim Uighurs, even if they’ve fled the country
//2 million Muslim Uighurs have been reportedly been incarcerated in re-education camps and members of the Uighur diaspora living outside of China say the government’s mass surveillance apparatus makes it impossible to contact family members without being monitored.
//China has been using software to track Uighurs and their diaspora since 2013. The malware followed Uighurs even as they fled China.
//The software is installed on mobile devices and is taking information without the owner’s knowledge. The malware focuses specifically also on apps that are keyboards or fonts for Uighur, indicating that the targeting is happening in a very particular way.
//those who are targeted to be aware of how at-risk they might be and take necessary precautions.
Full Article: The World
https://bit.ly/2Z0gttC
#Xinjiang #Uighurs #Apps #Surveillance #Malware #China #HumanRights
How China uses malware to track Muslim Uighurs, even if they’ve fled the country
//2 million Muslim Uighurs have been reportedly been incarcerated in re-education camps and members of the Uighur diaspora living outside of China say the government’s mass surveillance apparatus makes it impossible to contact family members without being monitored.
//China has been using software to track Uighurs and their diaspora since 2013. The malware followed Uighurs even as they fled China.
//The software is installed on mobile devices and is taking information without the owner’s knowledge. The malware focuses specifically also on apps that are keyboards or fonts for Uighur, indicating that the targeting is happening in a very particular way.
//those who are targeted to be aware of how at-risk they might be and take necessary precautions.
Full Article: The World
https://bit.ly/2Z0gttC
#Xinjiang #Uighurs #Apps #Surveillance #Malware #China #HumanRights
The World from PRX
How China uses malware to track Muslim Uighurs, even if they’ve fled
A new report found that Chinese surveillance of Uighurs started much earlier and is more comprehensive than previously thought. The World speaks to security researcher Apurva Kumar, one of the