WeChat’s Claims of Protecting User Data Misleading: Report

WeChat’s Claims of Protecting User Data Misleading: Report
The messenger app WeChat is seen next to its logo in this illustration picture taken on Aug. 7, 2020. Florence Lo/Reuters
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Cybersecurity firm Internet 2.0 claims the rapidly deteriorating legal status of Hong Kong has undermined any claims by Chinese social media app WeChat that user data is being protected.

On Sept. 30, 2020, WeChat made a written submission to the Australian Parliamentary Select Committee on Foreign Interference through Social Media, claiming that user data was protected on the basis that much of its technical architecture was located in Hong Kong.

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