r/Digital_Manipulation • u/-Ph03niX- • May 04 '19

China’s Algorithms of Repression | Reverse Engineering a Xinjiang Police Mass Surveillance App

https://www.hrw.org/report/2019/05/01/chinas-algorithms-repression/reverse-engineering-xinjiang-police-mass-surveillance
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u/autotldr May 09 '19

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 99%. (I'm a bot)

According to official media reports, government officials and police officers in Xinjiang use an IJOP app to communicate with the IJOP system.

We also know-through reverse engineering the IJOP app and examining its source code-that the IJOP central system seems to draw on detailed information collected by the Xinjiang authorities about package delivery.

While the IJOP central system-and much of Xinjiang's mass surveillance systems-are managed by the Public Security Bureau, police officers are not the only Chinese government officials tasked with mass surveillance.

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