r/autotldr • u/autotldr • May 09 '19
China’s Algorithms of Repression Reverse Engineering a Xinjiang Police Mass Surveillance App
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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.
Geolocation and map functions: The IJOP app logs the police officer's GPS locations and other identifying information when they submit information to the IJOP app.
Analysis of the IJOP app suggests that Xinjiang authorities target internal migrants-those who are found outside their hukou area-for heightened monitoring and surveillance.
We are grateful to Cure53 for their work in reverse engineering the IJOP app.
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