Apps hiding malicious functions collect data – including location, audio and camera – which could facilitate surveillance and harassment.

  • bizarroland@fedia.io
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    11 days ago

    Yeah, and?

    Do you honestly believe there’s a single person on lemmy with enough gravitas to be worth being tracked by the elite?

    • Zak@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      Maybe. The bad actor here seems to be the government of China, and the linked page says:

      The individuals most at risk include anyone connected to: Taiwanese independence; Tibetan rights; Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities in or from China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region; democracy advocacy, including Hong Kong, and the Falun Gong spiritual movement.

      I can imagine them casting a wide net.

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      10 days ago

      yes, absolutely. plently of programmers here with various agendas