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> Ms. Lim said the software was intended to help the Chinese client identify junk text messages and calls. She did not identify the company that requested it and said she did not know how many phones were affected. She said phone companies, not Adups, were responsible for disclosing privacy policies to users. “Adups was just there to provide functionality that the phone distributor asked for,” she said.

This whole article is a lot less racist if this paragraph is put on top. You know because every app made by some of the 1.3B people must be a government effort to collect intelligence.

The app is bad because it does the function without consent, not because it's made by Chinese.