China’s WeChat Monitors Foreign Users to Refine Censorship at Home

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While foreign users aren’t censored, images and documents they send through WeChat are analyzed for taboo content

WeChat, the Chinese do-everything app with more than one billion users world-wide, is subjecting its international users to surveillance to bolster the censorship machinery it employs to control users inside China, according to a new report.

A mainstay of everyday life in China, WeChat is one the country’s most popular apps, enabling people to chat with friends, order food delivery, exchange money, hail a car and even pay electricity bills.

 

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This is not a news okay?

The server located in China and control by Communist party

craigtse Given that Facebook, Twitter, and Google are bashed in China, WeChat and Weibo should not be allowed in the USA!

STOP USING CHINESE TECHNOLOGIES unless you want to be surveilled.

Using anything from China is an act of supporting the evil BoycottChina is the duty of every responsible world citizen

The whole world should sanction CCP

Winnie the Pooh doesn't want those images

the gap between mainland chinese n the rest of the world will b even wider. when there is conflicts or wars between nations, china will leverage fake public opinions it created in its own country to perform emotion kidnapping, just like they did in the predemic crisis.

As expected... god bless those who speak up for Huawei Zoom and other China products anywherebutchina ABC_Challenge

This is CHINA. And seriously people still wanna use Huawei for 5G. Come on. All Chinese companies are more or less controlled by the communist party.

AbcPassby It is amazing to finally realize the risks of information obtained from Chinese made Apps through backdoor capabilities. It is also saddening to see people around the world find the apps funny and interesting to use daily.

ML03509599 Wechat isn’t the only one censoring for CCP. There’s a lot in Weibo (Chinese-style Twitter) too. And it amazes me that everyday we’ll find new wordings / phrases becoming taboo.

WeChat should obay U.S law when operates in the U.S, its heavy censorship violates the constitution. Please sign and retweet petition to hold weChat’s public listed parent company - CCP’s puppet Tencent to account.

What do you think Facebook is doing with its newly appointed content police? You don’t think Twitter monitors who you are and what you say? The change in terms informs ads now... every platform exploits its data one way or the other

wonderful.

Seriously, does this sound like something new?🤔

US’s twitter, facebook, instagram, google, analyze images and documents sent by international users to improve its censorship at home

Why do you use it😏

lol look at what facebook has done... double-standard american media

Still the stupid liberal media gives into China. Any org going out of their way to please China should lose their privileges at home....FCC

The same thing is going to happen in India very soon with whatsapp

Wow you guys are genuinely running chinese state propaganda !!! This is insanity how has this happened

How does the international community stand by & do nothing. Why does china have a golden halo ‘of hell’ they can commit murder, pollute, steal, infect, commit war crimes & no one from the international community flinches UNHumanRights our 🌍 leaders are pathetic

Let's talk about Snowden and PRISM~ Does all your information get from the monitoring?

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Crap

When will Google and Apple force to another apps store or ban wechat?

Stop using ALL CCP apps, websites & devices. WeChat, TikTok, Alipay, Huawei, Xiaomi etc. Data must be submitted to Beijing, regardless of the nominal ownership. Chinazi do NOT have any concept of privacy. BoycottChina ChinaLiedPeopleDied ChinaMustPay StandWithHongKong

FB and youtube censorship has increased to an extent which only authoritarian countries would do.

How about China improves its virus containment.

Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, IG...All do the same. I didn't even need to search for a pillow and by just talking about buying a pillow, YouTube pushes pillow advertisement to me... Why doesn't WSJ explore these and tell the facts to the audience?

Twitter does it too.

Unathi_Kwaza

Don’t use or trust any Chinese programs, software, technology. None. They use it against US.

Innovation and fascism at its peak 😬🤣🤣🤣

WeChat‘s heavy censorship is not just hurting the Chinese people. COVID19 proves that it hurts the whole world if allowed to continue. Please sign and retweet petition to hold CCP’s puppet Tencent accountable.

twitter does it too. they censor just as much as the chinese and the eu likes it.

That’s wild

Don't use it if you don't like it. Easy.

Iamges, videos, text, anything in your cell phone are sent to the CCP server. China will know your everything. Be aware of the CCP Chinazi

Nmsl!Why you post our secret to the world

more chinese garbage.

Lovely

Don't forget Tiktok! You know free stuff comes with the highest price, right?

Stop using WeChat/ Tiktok/ Alipay/ any other’s service provided by the Chinese telecommunications company. All these apps may spy on you and steal your intellectual property. China_is_terrorist

Please BoycottChina !

This is far more dangerous than the virus

😳Disappointing. Just deleted WeChat and TikTok.

Knowing but still using ?🤔

If you treasure ur personal data BoycottChina

Coronavirus will be gone one day but the CCP will still be here.

CCPChina just make 1984 become an non-fiction

Contents by foreign users are also censored

shiroihamusan Stay away from WeChat, TikTok, Alipay and Huawei to ensure your security. antichinazi

Not surprised.

Welcome all free world people, you can use WeChat and TikTok freely, but your contents are shared with CCPChina, and the message might not get through! CCP is able to screen messages with GreatFirewall! ChinaLiesPeopleDie

Such techonologies have common target : TikTok is censoring videos to CCP . Huawei is stealing US technology . Chinese spies are everywhere !

SayNoToChineseProducts BoycottChina AntiCCP

Obviously, MadeInChina cannot be trusted. AnywherebutChina BoycottChina

你他娘那逼就你长了个嘴?

CCP or the Chinese company invest a lot the AI to learn about how human act in the virtual world. Most importantly to track on what you talk about and behaviour; so to check whether you threaten their regime.

The content would be used to build up the big data for CCP. Why is anyone still using the apps from China with backdoor capabilities today? Is it really fun to be watched? ChinaLiedPeopleDied ChinaIsWatchingYou real close and personal round the clock

Be alert Chinazi

Uninstall all the mobile apps launched by China. WeChat, MeiTu, Joox, TikTok, QQ, etc.

CCP is like a bacteria which sucks up the fertility everywhere they go.

Orwellian technology 🇨🇳

Benny31943935 We already knew it a long time ago. Even you are Westerns, Americans, Africans, soon or later you need to earn social credit score in China. Hope you enjoy it. It's compulsory and automatically. CCP_is_terrorist

Freedom in China is luxury. Nobody have freedom in China. CCP_is_terrorist ChinaLiedAndPeopleDied

It is a Chinese app. Your data is definitely passing back to the CCP. There is no privacy. China

The technologies and products from China are as untrustworthy as the Chinese Communist Party. It's time for the world to BoycottChina to protect our security and data from the surveillance from CCP. AnywhereButChina chinazi China_is_terrorist

It's hard for Chinese users to avoid using WeChat and Alipay. In turn, the two companies maintain close relations with the Chinese government. In particular, WeChat, the Internet police can even see the contents of chat records and friend circles.

Oh well, so much for suckas like myself, the things we do for love

taboo content?

Well that's done here too. 'Meta data' is what it's called.

the pandora's box digital door is open for all........ this is a planet of good and evil........ facebook...........

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