China: All Your WeChat Data Are Belong to Us

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WeChat has confirmed that it may give your personal data to the Chinese government: the company updated its privacy statement, declaring that it will retain, preserve, or disclose the personal information of its users under certain circumstances.

WeChat is the most popular messaging service in China, it’s the local equivalent to WhatsApp or Messenger. It proposes an alternative to the mainstream messaging service regularly blocked in the country. The terms indicate the app will now expose personal information such as name, contacts, email address and even location if users have chosen to share it with the service. This follows other recent aggressive actions by the Chinese government to control online activities.
 
being in china, i would have expected them to already be doing that
 
We do, as in, we already were, now it's in a document in case we need to refer to a document for doing it.

Like, China has literally shot dissidents in the street, you think they give a fuck that you know they have your data? Fuck no!

Tiananmen square.
 
Ties in nicely with the US government's pressure on Google and Microsoft to do similar things, I guess it's all fair game now, everyone's gonna be wrestling in the mud.
 
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Well there are alternatives like Signal. But using that will likely draw even more attention to yourself.
 
Hallucinator said:
WeChat controlled by Communistic Big Brother?

I'm glad I wasn't born in China
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If you were born there you wouldn't be having this conversation most likely. People in China, for the most part, are A-OK with how the government does/controls things.
 
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