Chinese Government Forces Residents To Install Surveillance App With Awful Security

Posted on Apr 10, 2018

Chinese Government Forces Residents To Install Surveillance App With Awful Security

In Xinjiang, a part of western China that a Muslim minority population calls home, the government forces residents to install an Android app that scans devices for particular files. Now, cybersecurity researchers have found that the so-called JingWang app has horrendous security practices for transferring data, and uncovered more details on what exactly the app does to phones.

Source: vice.com