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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Alex Croft

Inside Max: The Russian super-app that could spy on millions in Putin’s ‘digital gulag’

Every new digital device in Russia is mandated to come equipped with a messenger app named Max.

But beneath its innocuous white-and-blue logo lies software that experts warn could allow the Kremlin to dramatically expand its capacity to spy on the Russian public.

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