president Donald Trump sought to ban U.S. In response to a border dispute between India and China, WeChat was banned in India in June 2020 along with several other Chinese apps, including TikTok. Any interactions between Weixin and WeChat users are subject to the terms of service and privacy policies of both services. Chinese-registered Weixin accounts censor politically sensitive topics. User activity on Weixin, the Chinese version of the app, is analyzed, tracked and shared with Chinese authorities upon request as part of the mass surveillance network in China.
Non-Chinese numbers are registered under WeChat, and WeChat users are subject to a different, less strict terms of service and stricter privacy policy, and their data is stored in the Netherlands for users in the European Union, and in Singapore for other users.
WeChat provides text messaging, hold-to-talk voice messaging, broadcast (one-to-many) messaging, video conferencing, video games, mobile payment, sharing of photographs and videos and location sharing.Īccounts registered using Chinese phone numbers are managed under the Weixin brand, and their data is stored in mainland China and subject to Weixin's terms of service and privacy policy, which forbids content which "endanger national security, divulge state secrets, subvert state power and undermine national unity". WeChat has been described as China's "app for everything" and a super-app because of its wide range of functions. First released in 2011, it became the world's largest standalone mobile app in 2018 with over 1 billion monthly active users. 'micro-message') is a Chinese instant messaging, social media, and mobile payment app developed by Tencent. WeChat or Weixin in Chinese ( Chinese: 微信 pinyin: Wēixìn ( listen i) lit. Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Indonesian, Malay, Thai, Vietnamese, Arabic, Turkish
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