(Can’t) Picture This: An Analysis of Image Filtering on WeChat Moments - The Citizen Lab
This report demonstrates the technical underpinnings of how WeChat image censorship operates and suggests possible evasion strategies.| The Citizen Lab
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This report demonstrates the technical underpinnings of how WeChat image censorship operates and suggests possible evasion strategies.| The Citizen Lab
This report analyzes the information control practices related to a national crackdown on Chinese rights lawyers and activists on two leading Chinese social media networks. We document the Search filtering on Weibo, China’s Twitter-like service, as well as keyword and image censorship on WeChat, the most popular chat app in China.| The Citizen Lab
This FAQ accompanies the full report on privacy in the WeChat ecosystem. We analyzes privacy issues with popular app WeChat by reviewing the data collected by the app and sent to WeChat servers during the regular operation of its various features. We find that they collect more usage data than is disclosed in the WeChat privacy policy.| The Citizen Lab
WeChat communications conducted entirely among non-China-registered accounts are subject to pervasive content surveillance that was previously thought to be exclusively reserved for China-registered accounts.| The Citizen Lab
In this work, we study how Tencent implements image filtering on WeChat. We found that Tencent implements realtime, automatic censorship of chat images on WeChat based on what text is in an image and based on an image’s visual similarity to those on a blacklist. Tencent facilitates this realtime filtering by maintaining a hash index of MD5 hashes of sensitive image files.| The Citizen Lab
In this report we provide the first systematic study of keyword and website censorship on WeChat, the most popular chat app in China| The Citizen Lab
A comparative analysis of security, privacy, and censorship issues in TikTok and Douyin, both developed by ByteDance.| The Citizen Lab
App permissions help support user privacy by protecting access to the following:| Android Developers
