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Any studies on the type of data that WeChat is uploading in the background?

• walrus01 7y ago
  as I recall, it hashes all of your photos and videos in preparation for comparison against a list of known-banned things, because one of its centralized one-to-one chat and group-chat features is implementing CCP government policy censorship. Try sharing to a group chat an image of something going viral that the CCP doesn't want mainlanders to see. You might see it as posted to the chat, but nobody else receives it.
  • yorwba 7y ago
    That happens when you share that specific file, I don't think they preemptively scan the filesystem in the background.