Chinese authorities install app on phones of people entering Xinjiang
Before I went to China I bought a burner phone, mainly to install WeChat (which is also a kind of malware and also &quot;required&quot; in China).  Basic Android phones are not too expensive these days - I wonder if it will become commonplace to own several and physically separate your life across them?<p>FWIW I got a Huawei phone (Honor 10 Lite) for under 200 EUR, but much cheaper phones than that are available.<p><i>Edit:</i> To be clear this is not to avoid Chinese surveillance.  That&#x27;s unavoidable whatever you do because China is a police state.  It&#x27;s to separate out that surveillance from my contacts and my regular life at home.  (I also think it&#x27;s at least arguable that the Chinese government has a duty to look closely at what foreigners are up to.  It&#x27;s not an argument that I agree with myself very much because it infringes freedom while also making the wrong trade-offs, but given we live in a world of nation states it follows logically from that.)