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WhatsApp competitor confirms: All data is revealed to Chinese government

article published on 25 September, 2017

It has been revealed that the messaging platform WeChat, owned by the Chinese technology giant Tencent, shares all its data with the government, Moneycontrol.com reports. Chinese government is known for limiting access to online content and surveilling its citizens closely so it shouldn't come as a surprise but nonetheless seems egregious even from them. Even though the messaging ... [ read the full article ]

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borhan9

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25. September 2017 @ 23:40

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I do not think I will be using this service anymore :)
If they do not have any encryption then is risky.
Bye Bye WeChat from Me.

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7. October 2017 @ 11:20

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Originally posted by borhan9:
I do not think I will be using this service anymore :)
If they do not have any encryption then is risky.
Bye Bye WeChat from Me.

It's a Chinese 'company', of course they give the government whatever they want. That's just how 'companies' in China work. Even foreign companies in China do this; that's a big part of the reason Google isn't in China anymore. If you don't want your data handed over to the Chinese government then don't use any service from China. It's probably a bad idea to trust non-Chinese services that operate inside China as well. For example, Apple works with the Chinese government to reduce access to VPN's...it isn't a huge leap to handing over data from "enemies of the state" such as peaceful protestors, the Dali Lama (who is considered a terrorist in China), etc.

Really the only news here is that they made the mistake of telling the public; I'm guessing that the CCP is less than happy about that.

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