
Ostrzeżenie: *Prywatność dla tego produktu do nabycia osobno
WeChat is a hugely popular social media and messaging app owned by Chinese tech giant Tencent. And when we say popular, we mean it’s one of the most downloaded apps in the world, with over a billion active users. It’s also one of the least private messaging apps we've come across. It offers all the features -- text chat, video and voice chat, location sharing, stickers, games, WeChat Pay, and even ways to exercise with your friends. Which is great. Just don't expect anything you do on WeChat to be private.
Co się może stać, jeśli coś pójdzie nie tak?
Ding! Ding! Ding! WeChat earns our *Privacy Not Included warning label for good reason. WeChat isn't just bad at privacy, it's scary. Where to start? The lack of end-to-end encryption? Not a deal breaker, but not great.The leak of hundreds of millions of private chat logs? Definitely bad! The reported recent banning of LGBTQ friendly and feminist accounts? Yikes! The alleged foreign surveillance and censorship. Terrible! Yes, WeChat has a huge billion+ user base. Yes, it’s very popular and feature rich. But none of that outweighs WeChat's bad track record on privacy and security. The bottom line: we feel the only way to protect your privacy when using WeChat, is to never use WeChat. *Privacy is absolutely not included.
Czy może mnie podsłuchiwać?
Aparat
Urządzenie: Nie dotyczy
Aplikacja: Tak
Mikrofon
Urządzenie: Nie dotyczy
Aplikacja: Tak
Śledzi położenie
Urządzenie: Nie dotyczy
Aplikacja: Tak
Czego można użyć do rejestracji?
Nie
Telefon
Tak
Konto firmy trzeciej
Nie
Optional Facebook sign up is available.
Jakie dane zbiera ta firma?
Osobiste
Name, user alias, mobile phone number, password, gender, IP address, detailed location data (from GPS, IP address, compass, accelerometer, or public posts that contain location information). Optional: Emergency Contacts, Managed Devices, Email address, Facebook Connect OpenID, Facebook Connect Token, Facebook Username, QQ ID, and if you opt in: credit card number, facial mapping/detection, and/or Sign in with Apple. Any information that you include in your publicly-visible WeChat profile, which may include your profile ID, name, and photo.
Związane z ciałem
Społecznościowe
All of the information you make available to other users via WeChat. Content of communications between you and another user or group of users. Your on-device contact list. Web search terms used, social media profiles visited, and details of other information and content accessed or requested by you in using WeChat.
Jak ta firma wykorzystuje te dane?
Jak możesz kontrolować swoje dane?
Jaka jest znana historia tej firmy w zakresie ochrony danych użytkowników?
WeChat allegedly censors private conversations automatically in real life, for both Chinese and non-Chinese users. In March 2019, a database of 364 million records of users from China was discovered on the Internet. Each record, drawn from apps like WeChat and QQ, also contained personally identifying Chinese citizen ID numbers, photos, addresses, GPS location data, and info on the type of device being used. The database also sent data back to 17 remote servers in different provinces in China. There is a suspicion that the data gets distributed among police stations. WeChat also reportedly shut down hundreds of LGBTQ+ friendly accounts in July 2021.
Czy ten produkt może być używany bez połączenia z siecią?
Przyjazne dla użytkownika informacje o prywatności?
Huge and overly complex privacy policy.
Odnośniki do informacji o prywatności
Czy ten produkt spełnia nasze minimalne standardy bezpieczeństwa?
Szyfrowanie
Uses encryption but no end-to-end encryption
Silne hasło
Password is needed to set up an account. Password must be 8-16 characters and contain both numbers and letters/special characters.
Aktualizacje zabezpieczeń
Since its launch in 2011, over 100 updates.
Zajmuje się problemami z bezpieczeństwem
Tencent operates a security response center.
Zasady ochrony prywatności
WeChat runs a WeChat AI hub, which openly focuses on such applications as Speech and Audio recognition, Natural Language Processing, face recognition, content understanding, etc. A major concern is that this AI enables censorship, blocking links, images, topics or audio.
Czy tej sztucznej inteligencji nie można ufać?
Jakie decyzje sztuczna inteligencja podejmuje o Tobie lub za Ciebie?
Czy firma jest przejrzysta w kwestii działania sztucznej inteligencji?
Czy użytkownik ma kontrolę nad funkcjami sztucznej inteligencji?
Dowiedz się więcej
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Red Vs are after China’s queer communityProtocol
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TikTok, WeChat & Co: How does spyware get into smartphones?DW
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Tencent's WeChat suspends new user registration for security complianceReuters
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How WeChat censors private conversations, automatically in real timeTechnology Review
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Out in the World: China's WeChat shuts down LGBTQ accountsBayAreaReporter
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LGBTQ activists give voice to China's censored WeChat groupsNikkei Asia
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Chinese censorship invades the U.S. via WeChatWashington Post
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Security in the Face of CensorshipMIT
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Outrage over shutdown of LGBTQ WeChat accounts in ChinaThe Guardian
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Hundreds of millions of Chinese chat logs leak onlineFinancial Times
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