Tencent’s WeChat tightens privacy controls for third-party apps, calls out rival DingTalk

guest · Mar 5, 2020

Tencent’s WeChat tightens privacy controls for third-party apps, calls out rival DingTalk for alleged violations
...they “could leak private information without the user’s knowledge”
March 5, 2020
https://www.scmp.com/tech/apps-soci...htens-privacy-controls-third-party-apps-calls

WeChat tightened privacy controls on third-party apps this week, restricting rights to collect sensitive personal information to a smaller group of developers and requiring them to explain what personal information they are collecting and how.
Under the new privacy controls, information can only be gathered on a need-to-know basis for mini programs, which run within the WeChat platform.

“Protecting the privacy of users has always been our bottom line,” WeChat said in the statement. “We hope to work with all service providers to bring users a safe and good experience.”
The ubiquitous do-everything app operated by Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings said the move was in response to some mini programs that have violated its user privacy regulations [...] Since the start of 2020, WeChat has intercepted 3,252 attempts to collect users’ personal information by 2,392 mini programs, it said.
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WeChat also highlighted threats caused by links from third-party apps, using links from rival Alibaba Group Holdin’s workplace app DingTalk’s Health Code in a screenshot showing how third-party apps could access users’ contacts.

These links violate WeChat’s rules and “could leak private information without the user's knowledge”, WeChat said, adding that it has banned these links from opening directly within the platform, and users have to copy and paste them in their browsers to open them instead.
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