State Grid reads WeChat

Are WeChat content producers chasing attention without restrictions?

Meanwhile, the complexity of the logic of traffic lies in the fact that content producers on WeChat are not chasing attention without restrictions but are always trying to achieve a balance between traffic and restrictions.

Does WeChat have a privacy policy?

While WeChat China linked to its terms of services in its privacy policy, its privacy policy did not provide links to the terms of services. In the case of WeChat International, its terms of service included links to the privacy policy, and vice versa.

Does WeChat have a balancing act?

Previous Citizen Lab research shows the balancing act WeChat must maintain as it attempts to keep within government red lines in China and attract users internationally. WeChat implements censorship for users with accounts registered to mainland China phone numbers.

Does WeChat international cite DMCA & GDPR?

In contrast, WeChat International’s policies made reference to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) (i.e., US copyright law) and broad references to European laws, though the policies did not explicitly cite the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Does WeChat have a copyright policy?

Analysis of international users’ communications are also authorized in the privacy policy and terms of service documents that they agree to. WeChat International includes a standard, broadly encompassing, class of language which authorizes them to transmit users’ communications without running afoul of copyright claims.

Does WeChat retain a hash of a recalled file?

To test whether WeChat retains a hash of a recalled file, we perform the following test: Hash retention test. We send a novel, sensitive document in the non-China group chat in a group chat and then immediately recall the document. One hour later, we send the same document in the China group chat.