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Apple Airdrop: The service was widely used by participants in pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong in 2019 that China's central government eventually quelled.
Chinese state-backed experts have found a way to identify people who use Apple's encrypted AirDrop messaging service, according to the Beijing municipal government.
A security company from China has successfully identified the senders by obtaining the phone numbers of people who use AirDrop. Apple has also known about this since 2019.
A Chinese state-backed tech institute claims to have discovered a way to decrypt Apple's AirDrop feature, allowing the government to identify phone numbers or email addresses of those who share using the tech.
China allegedly cracked the AirDrop encryption. A new report claims Apple was already aware of it since 2019.