[2020-05-07] · TRACKING TECH
The Citizen Lab's report "We Chat, They Watch", published 2020-05-07 (Knockel, Parsons, Ruan, Xiong, Crandall, Deibert), found through technical experiments that documents and images transmitted entirely among non-China-registered WeChat accounts undergo content surveillance in which the files are analysed for content politically sensitive in China, that this surveillance operates without user notification, and that surveillance between non-China accounts is functionally undetectable.
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