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Over the past 18 months, tens of millions of Russians have been forced to install a new app on their phones - a purple-blue messaging and payment button called Max.
Russia's efforts to create its own digital ecosystem independent of Western platforms continue. The latest attempt in this direction is...
In Russia, the "patriotic" equivalent of WhatsApp is required to communicate, pay and access public services. Work presented on Friday reveals the monitoring capabilities of this application supported by the Kremlin.
In eighteen months, tens of millions of Russians have been more or less forced to install the Max app on their phones. Officially, the app is intended exclusively for messaging, banking, or access to government services, for example. The Kremlin promotes Max as a patriotic alternative to Telegram and WhatsApp. However, according to the British newspaper The Guardian, the app also secretly takes screenshots, can access information from other appl…
It's the Russian "patriotic" alternative to Telegram and WhatsApp, but according to a research it can become a powerful surveillance tool. And Russian celebrities have already advertised it in videos and comic sketches
Researchers from the University of Michigan have found that the Russian app Max has broad access to users' devices.
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