For the first time, the app used by police in China to collect huge amounts of people’s personal information has been reverse-engineered.
Children react as Turkish plain clothes police officers try to push back demonstrators during a protest of Uighur supporters outside the Chinese consulate in Istanbul, in July 2018.Turkic Muslim minorities
“The IJOP is unique," said Maya Wang, the senior researcher on China at Human Rights Watch,"it’s the heart of the mass surveillance system in Xinjiang.
HRW’s analysis comes as China comes under increasing scrutiny from foreign governments, UN officials and human rights advocates over its treatment of ethnic minorities.
“This is a policing variant that comes from the military,” Wang said. “It pools information from many different places to keep authorities aware of what’s going on, and it’s about mobilizing forces in places in response to an incident. It’s the migration of military doctrine for a civilian setting.” Human Rights Watch says the IJOP system gathers information from surveillance cameras, Wi-Fi sniffers and other sources. The analysis of the app found the system could track people’s locations and could even warn police about individuals deemed troublesome in real time.
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