China is forcing the Muslim minority to upload an application that tracks and monitors their activity

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Officials in China's Xinjiang region are using intelligent and important applications on all smart phones to monitor and track citizens of the Muslim minority. A new report from the business website of Business Insider, the British, provides an overview of how it works and allows the state access to a wide range of deep personal information Of their persecuted citizens, such as their blood type, the amount of gas they use, and whether they are on the birth control system.

According to the report, Xinjiang in recent years has been subjected to unprecedented scrutiny because of the country's campaign against the Uighur, a Muslim ethnic minority concentrated there.

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Officials in the area installed hundreds of thousands of face recognition cameras and forced the Uighurs to download programs on their phones that would allow the government to track their activities and detain at least one million Muslims in prison-like detention centers.

Beijing justified the repression by describing the Uighurs as a threat to national security, and routinely tried to stoke Islamophobia to justify its controversial policies in the region.

Human Rights Watch said in a report last week that the authorities are also asking residents to use an application to record their personal data and identify "dangerous" individuals for investigation or punishment.