A man works at the central command center of the Shanghai metro system on July 11, 2017. Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images
A former Beijing software engineer who once considered himself a loyal Communist Party supporter says he helped build a phone app the Chinese navy uses to watch every tap, swipe, and step its sailors took—and that the same technology, he warns, could track anyone who carries a Chinese-made device.
Liu Dadong fled to the United States in 2019 after his younger brother was branded “pro-Taiwan independence.” In an exclusive interview with The Epoch Times, he said the navy project was only a fragment of Beijing’s plan to control both hardware and software at home and abroad.
