Imagine not being able to fill up your tank with petrol, charge your phone or even leave your house without authority figures knowing about it.
This, according to Human Rights Watch, is the reality for up to 13 million Uighur Muslims in China’s autonomous region of Xinjiang.
The surveillance app tracks an individual’s electricity use and can raise an alert if someone other than the registered owner fills up their car with petrol.The human rights organisation said turning your phone off for a long time could trigger an alert, as could leaving home through the back door or failing to socialise with neighbours. Those who “collected money or materials for mosques with enthusiasm” also fall under suspicion.
“Our research shows, for the first time, that Xinjiang police are using illegally gathered information about people’s completely lawful behaviour — and using it against them,” said Maya Wang, senior China researcher at Human Rights Watch. “The Chinese Government is monitoring every aspect of people’s lives in Xinjiang, picking out those it mistrusts and subjecting them to extra scrutiny.”
HRW said it decoded a mobile app used by Chinese officials to connect to a policing program through which all this data is available.
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