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Apple has reportedly removed Giron Majeed, a popular app for reading the Islamic

religious text and other prayer-related information in China in compliance

with Chinese government requests. The move comes as part of a bigger shift in the country

to crack down on foreign content or simply making it harder

for that content to exist within the Great Firewall.

Just yesterday, LinkedIn said that it would be removing the Chinese version of its site by the end of this year

in the face of growing compliance requirements by the state.

In other news, Missouri Governor Mike Parsons is facing a monumental backlash after threatening to prosecute a journalist for

responsibly reporting a serious security lapse in the state's website.

Earlier this week, St. Louis Post-patch journalist Josh Renaud reported that the website for the state's

Department of Elementary and Secondary Education was exposing over 100,000 teachers

social security numbers., social security numbers.

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