In this report, we analyze the Windows, Android, and iOS versions of Tencent’s Sogou Input Method, the most popular Chinese-language input method in China. Our analysis found serious vulnerabilities in the app’s custom encryption system and how it encrypts sensitive data. These vulnerabilities could...
How is anything China does that this point news? This is like walking through an orange grove and stopping at every single tree and saying “look, it’s an orange!”.
Of course all the popular software and likely some hardware coming out of China is a mass surveillance device. You should have the same concern about everything from meta and Google too- the difference is that the private companies are spying to make money, China is doing it for societal control and building complex profiles of people around the world to exploit later.