In the case of snow Askar can imagine driving the road in the mountains only. Off the road is hundreds of metres downhill. Scared of the truck driver. He knows the route that leads to a good 3500 meters above the Irkeschtam Pass in the Chinese Region of Xinjiang into it.
The real danger lurks for the Kyrgyz citizens at the border. Because Askar is a Muslim. Long he no longer dares to pray on his journeys to the neighboring country. The prayer rug he makes at home. Even so, the entry is already complicated enough: Up to ten hours he needs to pass to the limit. The officers search his truck and his Luggage. At the end of you are interested but mainly for one thing: his mobile phone.
China has in recent years built up in Xinjiang, an unprecedented digital surveillance apparatus. Through a network of cameras, the authorities observed in the Region of millions of people. On virtually every street corner, in Hotels, in Taxis, the devices, the authorities can track a Person within a matter of minutes to hang. On the highways, travelers must stop at certain intervals to control points, and their faces to be scanned.
App helps in Monitoring
with the help of Apps, the Chinese police state to gain access to the mobile phones of millions of inhabitants of the Region. Two years ago, the authorities requested by the users of the popular messenger Wechat, to install an application called “Jingwang”. The App should automatically recognize the illegal terrorist and religious photos, Videos, and other files that need to be deleted. They also transmitted data such as the device number of the mobile phones, as well as information on all on-device files stored on a police server, resulted in a technical analysis of the publicly funded US research programme, the open tech Fund.
by this kind of Chinese monitoring apps only to people living in Xinjiang are not Affected for a long time. At least two border crossings between Kyrgyzstan and China also foreign tourist and business to be spying on people. The border crossing in Irkeschtam is the place where a truck driver Askar car needs from Kyrgyzstan to be a phone issue. What are the officials at these border crossings with the devices make, is clear, since the “süddeutsche Zeitung”, the research partner of this newspaper, an App called “Fengcai” (“collecting honey bee”) was leaked.
Once installed on the smartphone, lists, uses the App on a number of information on the device, including contacts, calendar, text messages, location, and call, and transmits to a Computer of the border police. In addition, she is looking for, similar to the App “Jingwang”, according to files from the point of view of the Chinese government suspicious. This includes pamphlets of Islamists, but also harmless religious content with references to Taiwan or Tibet, or recordings of Koransuren, save the devout Muslims on the phone. The App collects only the most intimate data of foreign nationals, but also looks decidedly suspicious Material that would apply in a European country that is completely harmless. According to several experts, it is clearly a violation of human rights of the persons concerned.
Treated as enemies of the state
most of The tourists can be the Chinese surveillance state to escape by avoiding such crossings. The people who live in Xinjiang, are daily confronted with it. The United Nations declared in 2018, the Muslim minority would be treated there now “like enemies of the state”.
Long ago, the government collects biometric data of its citizens in Xinjiang. Health authorities have recently, in the framework of the “health tests” fingerprints, blood groups and DNA samples and eye scans of local residents gathered. This data is forwarded without the consent of the patient to the police, a government regulation, such as Human Rights Watch found. The Tests were held according to the human rights organization is always voluntary.
15’683 of them were taken according to the China Cables firmly and in the Camps.
In at least one Prefecture of the Region of the Überwachungswut even goes so far that residents have to leave your kitchen knives to register. These are printed with a QR Code that the owner can find. At the same time, the authorities have returned to sugar ratio. Who wants to buy larger quantities, must present his ID and a permit. This is to ensure that the raw material used for the construction of bombs.
many of the data on a Central System, the so-called “integration platform for joint operations to be Bundled”. China’s authorities have used this according to research by Human Rights Watch for the first Time by the end of 2016. Using the system can be as good as each step of a Person being monitored. The platform brings together information from various sources and Apps, the System can access, including data of, for example, security cameras, Offices and schools, and analyzes these data. Certain behaviors that are classified as suspicious, and trigger an Alarm in the security agencies.
Alone in a single week in June 2017, this happened to one of the SZ to this government document, according to at 24’612 persons – 15’683 of them were taken according to the China Cables then fixed and in Camps.
malicious software on Uighur websites
Not always the Monitoring of the Uighurs is so obvious. In the past few months, Apple has worldwide users visited certain Uighur web sites, secretly pushed malicious software. IT experts suggest that it was a state-sponsored attack. The attackers had access to nearly all the private data on the Smartphone, such as the location, text messages, contacts and all the messages of messengers such as Whatsapp and Telegram in unencrypted Form.
Apple has closed the last gap, which became known in February 2019 and is according to own statements, that the population was not at risk, but the attack was only a certain group of the population: the Uighurs. A report by the security company Volexity that there were similar attacks on users of other operating systems, the particular Uighur news visited sites such as the 2018, founded in Uighur Times: a source of information, especially for exiled Uighurs.
Created: 24.11.2019, 19:56 PM
