According to recent interviews, Chinese millennials are reportedly leaving WeChat due to lack of privacy and possible mass surveillance. One such user named Wang Zizheng said that he quit the popular messaging app after learning that parent company Tencent hands over user data to the...
China’s most popular social platform, WeChat, has recently launched a new set of privacy rules as part of a wider overhaul to protect user data and comply with the GDPR. In addition to the strict rules already in place, the company has introduced new rules focusing...
Privacy fears in China were stoked after a Communist Party’s anti-graft watchdog said it had been able to retrieve deleted messages from the WeChat account of a suspect. In a post, the graft-buster in southeastern Hefei, Anhui province confirmed that based on the chats, many of...
China’s most popular messaging platform, WeChat, recently denied allegations that it was storing chat histories. The Tencent-owned app chalked the criticisms as a matter of “pure misunderstanding”. It is said that the allegations were started by a comment of Li Shufu, a Chinese businessman, who recently...
The Chinese government announced that it will now be easier for citizens to delete their accounts on online services such as WeChat, Taobao, and Alipay. Such companies previously made it difficult for users to manage and delete their accounts by making their privacy policy purposefully vague...
An updated privacy policy statement from WeChat’s latest update confirms a long-time suspicion: private data from WeChat is shared with Chinese authorities. Users who do not agree to the new T&C will not be able to use their WeChat accounts. In the updated policy, the information...