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Governments identify dozens of Android apps bundled with spyware. (www.ncsc.gov.uk)

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

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[+] bizarroland@fedia.io -43 points 6 days ago (4 children)

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 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ILoveUnions@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

#1 reason I'll never visit china, as much as there seems to be amazing things to see there

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Pretty sure US still does three hops of surveillance.

If you or any friend you have speaks to anyone at all in a foreign country you are put on a list for surveillance.

I had a Jordanian friend in college and I have a close friend who still keeps in touch with him now that he is back in Jordan. I always assumed that put me on a list based on the three hops method.

Three hops being:

Hop 1: Main surveillance target Hop 2: Social network of main surveillance target Hop 3: Social network of anyone in main surveillance target's social network.

So if you are the main surveillance target, friends of your friends are also targetted.

US surveils people for what are otherwise pretty inocuous reasons.

[–] darkkite@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 days ago

yes, absolutely. plently of programmers here with various agendas

[–] systemglitch@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Most definitely. At least a few, but not many.