Americans will no longer be able to download TikTok starting on Sunday when the Trump administration will have it banned from U.S. app stores. The Commerce Department plans to issue an order Friday that will bar people in the United States from downloading the video sharing app and the Chinese-owned messaging app WeChat, three officials … Read more
Chinese iPhone shipments could decline up to 30 per cent if Apple is forced to remove WeChat from its App Store, an analyst has predicted. The removal of the massively popular chat platform, owned by Chinese tech giant Tencent, could adversely impact iPhone sales in the country. Annual shipments of other Apple hardware devices, including AirPods, … Read more
WeChat ‘monitors international users’ text messages to preemptively identify content to censor for its Chinese users’ The Citizens Lab studied how WeChat builds their database of blacklisted terms They found the company monitors international messages to preemptively identify potential images or content that should be banned in China The app creates a ‘hash’ code for … Read more