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WeChat was banned for a week in 2017. [80] JW Library app was banned on March 31, 2021; Smart Voting app (2021) [81] Line (software) Foreign messengers in government organizations: Discord, Microsoft Teams, Signal, Skype for Business, Snapchat, Telegram, Threema, Viber, WhatsApp and WeChat are examples. (2023, 2024) [82] [83] [84]
Canada has banned Chinese super-app WeChat on official government devices citing cybersecurity risks, following similar action taken against short-form video app TikTok earlier this year.
WeChat or Weixin in Chinese (Chinese: 微信; pinyin: Wēixìn (listen ⓘ); lit. 'micro-message') [a] is a Chinese instant messaging, social media, and mobile payment app developed by Tencent. First released in 2011, it became the world's largest standalone mobile app in 2018 [5] [6] with over 1 billion monthly active users.
WeChat is the dominant social media and messaging app in China, and is also the most popular messaging application for most Chinese nationals staying overseas. Though subject to state rules which saw individual posts removed, [133] [134] Tech in Asia reported in 2013 that certain "restricted words" had been blocked on WeChat globally. [135]
Tuesday's report contains 17 recommendations including new transparency rules enforceable by fines, expanding an existing TikTok ban on government devices to contractors and investigating a ban on ...
The US Defense Department has added Chinese tech companies Tencent, a social media and gaming giant, and CATL, the world’s largest battery maker, to a list of firms that it alleges work with ...
U.S. WeChat Users Alliance (USWUA) v. Trump was a court case pending before the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.The plaintiffs won a preliminary injunction on September 20, 2020, blocking the Trump administration's ban order against WeChat based on concerns raised about harm to First Amendment rights and the hardships imposed on a minority community using ...
This most notably included TikTok, WeChat, and mobile games such as PUBG Mobile. [105] [106] [107] The stated reason for the bans were to protect the sovereignty, integrity, and security of India, and protect its citizens from software that was "stealing and surreptitiously transmitting users’ data in an unauthorised manner to servers outside ...