WeChat allegedly monitoring its overseas users – Asia Times

WeChat, China s ubiquitous social networking app, rules the roost in China with functions ranging from messaging to mobile payment that cater to user s modern needs.

It also has an unrivaled user base among the Chinese diaspora and netizens across Taiwan and Southeast Asia, with over one billion active monthly users worldwide.

But that massive expansion could start to slow if recent allegations of Chinese monitoring of the app s overseas users have merit.

The University of Toronto s Citizen Lab claims in a recent research report that WeChat uses systematic algorithms and a special task force to monitor everything sent, posted and shared by the app s overseas users.

via asiatimes.com