China protests Canada's decision to ban WeChat from federal government smartphones, citing lack of evidence for privacy and security concerns.
A smart phone with the icons for the social networking apps WeChat and others seen on the screen on June 29, 2018.Beijing is protesting Canada ’s decision this week to ban the popular Chinese-language application WeChat from federal government smartphones on privacy and security grounds, saying Ottawa has not provided evidence that the platform is dangerous.
WeChat is the third Chinese technology brand that has seen its usage in Canada restricted by the federal government in about 16 months.Technologies’s equipment from Canada’s 5G wireless network in May, 2022, citing national security and the need to safeguard the country’s telecommunications infrastructure. In February, Ottawa banned social-media platform TikTok from federal government devices, citing, like it did for WeChat, an “unacceptable level of risk to privacy and security.
Asked to list which international partners banned WeChat from government devices, Treasury Board president Anita Anand’s department said it was talking about Kaspersky in that case. It could not identify a country that had banned WeChat from government devices. Ronald Deibert, director of Citizen Lab, a Toronto internet-security and human-rights organization, said the ban appears to be prudent given his group’s research. He said Citizen Lab has found that “the accounts of international WeChat users are under surveillance and that data-sharing practices on the company side are opaque and subject to broad cybersecurity laws in China, which put all WeChat users at risk of government surveillance.
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