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China installs spyware on tourists’ Android phones, downloads data from iPhones

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<p>Foreigners visiting certain areas of China are having their smartphones searched at the border. With Android phones, authorities install a piece of spyware that has access to the user’s calendar, phone contacts, call logs, and text messages — as well as the apps they use and their usernames in some of those apps.</p>
<p>iOS protections mean that an iPhone app wouldn’t give them the same access, so they instead take a different approach …</p>
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