Reactions are increasing in China, which has adopted a zero-case policy in the fight against the coronavirus epidemic. Due to the increase in the cases again, the strict measures implemented tired the citizens. As hundreds of people took to the streets protesting the quarantine measures, protests began across the country.
Images of the protests and riots that swept through China are disappearing from Huawei smartphones. Citizens began to make social media posts, revealing that the videos they took did not appear in the gallery. It is not yet clear whether the deletion occurs in cloud storage or at the device level.
Only protest videos disappear
Smartphone owners say that only videos of protests and riots are deleted from their devices without any notification or approval. While a video icon appears on the screen instead of the captured images, it is not possible to open the said videos.
It is unclear how Huawei censored users’ gallery. Videos may have been deleted based on time and geotagging. Allegedly, the company detects such videos with an artificial intelligence algorithm and destroys them from devices.
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