"Install Jinwang surveillance app or go to jail" is the new mandate by the Chinese government to its citizens. The main reason behind this is to minimize or stop terrorism and terrorist attacks.
Radio Free Asia reportedly disclosed that an announcement was made from authorities in the autonomous region of surveillannce, home to a majority Muslim population (including millions of Uyghurs who have roots in Turkey), instructing citizens to install a surveillance app on their phones.
Anyone who fails to install this application will be detained for up to 10 days if found at random check points.
Jinwang is the name of the surveillance app. Its work is to monitor files on your phone and automatically detect terrorist and illegal religious videos, images, e-books and electronic documents.
Peradventure such contents are found on your device, you will be prompted to delete them. Jinwang will also have access to your Weibo and WeChat (popular social networks in China) records, SIM card information and Wi-Fi login data and then transfer them to a government sever. When you do something even remotely shady, this app will report you to the authorities.
Running this app requires a lot of data for the end-users and government. I hope they are also providing free data or Wi-Fi to download and use it. Is this kind of app not needed in Nigeria?
Radio Free Asia reportedly disclosed that an announcement was made from authorities in the autonomous region of surveillannce, home to a majority Muslim population (including millions of Uyghurs who have roots in Turkey), instructing citizens to install a surveillance app on their phones.
Anyone who fails to install this application will be detained for up to 10 days if found at random check points.
Jinwang is the name of the surveillance app. Its work is to monitor files on your phone and automatically detect terrorist and illegal religious videos, images, e-books and electronic documents.
Peradventure such contents are found on your device, you will be prompted to delete them. Jinwang will also have access to your Weibo and WeChat (popular social networks in China) records, SIM card information and Wi-Fi login data and then transfer them to a government sever. When you do something even remotely shady, this app will report you to the authorities.
Running this app requires a lot of data for the end-users and government. I hope they are also providing free data or Wi-Fi to download and use it. Is this kind of app not needed in Nigeria?
Haba! With this app, there's nothing like privacy. For what na?
ReplyDeleteJinwang ko. I don't see how this scrap will curb terrorism!
ReplyDeleteThe app won't even have access to WhatsApp and Facebook because of end-to-end encryption.