Cybersecurity

Report Shows Sophistication of China Mass Surveillance

  • Corrects May 2 story after rights group amends Megvii findings
  • Human Rights Watch had police mobile app reverse-engineered
Inside China's Uighur Camps
Lock
This article is for subscribers only.

Sign up for Next China, a weekly email on where the nation stands now and where it's going next.

A mobile app used by police to track citizens in China’s far west region of Xinjiang shows how some of the country’s biggest technology companies are linked to a mass surveillance system that is more sophisticated than previously known, according to a report from Human Rights Watch.