In November 2020, it was revealed that the US military had bought the location data of millions of Muslims around the world using Muslim Pro, a prayer app, and Muslim Mingle, a dating app. In recent months, several apps tailored for Muslims have been reportedly misused and their users' data has been breached by governments. They need to do the right thing, and then face whatever the reaction is of the Chinese government," Benjamin Ismail, project director at Apple Censorship, told the BBC. "Currently Apple is being turned into the censorship bureau of Beijing. It has also banned apps that are critical of the CCP, stored its users' data on Chinese government servers and shared them with authorities. As a result, Apple has reportedly removed apps that could cross Chinese red lines to avoid angering officials. Uighur activists: Stuck between Chinese persecution and US imperialism Read More »Īpple relies heavily on China's supply chain to manufacture iPhones and Macs, and the Chinese market is the third biggest in sales after the US and European markets.Īpple has to abide by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) guidebook to work on the mainland. The Chinese government did not respond to the BBC's request for comment. The BBC reported that Apple Censorship, a watchdog monitoring Apple's app store activity, first spotted the removal of Quran Majeed from China's App Store. It offers a digitised version of the Quran in Arabic, accompanied by translations into various languages, a mosque finder, various Quran reciters, prayer time alarms and a compass for finding qibla, the direction of Islamic prayer. Quran Majeed is available on Apple's app store worldwide. The PDMS representative did not say whether his company had secured such a permit. "Apps with book and magazine content must secure an internet publishing permit from China’s National Press and Publication Administration (NPPA)." "As per our understanding, Chinese law requires additional documentation for some apps to be available on the App Store on the Chinese mainland," Ahmed said. Hasan Shafiq Ahmed, the company's head of growth, told MEE that PDMS is "trying to get in touch with CAC and relevant Chinese authorities, so Quran Majeed app can be restored in China App store, as we have close to a million users in China that have been impacted". Quran Majeed is developed and owned by Pakistan Data Management Services (PDMS) and describes itself as "one of the top Islamic apps with close to 40 million users worldwide". Facebook to investigate Israel-Palestine content suppression Read More »
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