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Be cautious using WeChat. If the Chinese authority could retrieve something from the device, the U.S. authority must be able, too. https://www.androidheadlines
by ttflee 8y ago
Be cautious using WeChat. If the Chinese authority could retrieve something from the device, the U.S. authority must be able, too.
https://www.androidheadlines.com/2018/04/confirmed-deleted-wechat-messages-can-be-retrieved-by-chinese-authorities.html https://www.androidheadlines.com/2018/04/confirmed-deleted-w...
- syntaxing 8y agoI'm curious how you came to this conclusion. WeChat is owned by Tencent which is heavily regulated by the Chinese Government since every company needs a Internet license to operate. It's a lot easier for the Chinese government to force Tencent to hand over the information willingly compared to the US getting the information in other ways.
- taneq 8y agoWhy would they need to recover them from a device at all? Do they not just get chat logs bcc'd to them as a matter of course?
- aeontech 8y agoOh yeah, I am under no illusion about WeChat’s privacy. It’s insanely integrated into everyday life in China though - it almost feels as if people don’t care whether they use iOS or Android there, because they use WeChat apps for everything (banking, utilities, taxi, games, payments for everything, etc) rather than native apps.