{"id":23244,"date":"2021-10-09T07:00:24","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T07:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=23244"},"modified":"2021-10-09T07:00:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T07:00:24","slug":"tencents-wechat-to-stop-routine-scans-of-photos-after-a-tech-influencer-publicised-the-behaviour-on-weibo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=23244","title":{"rendered":"Tencent\u2019s WeChat to stop routine scans of photos after a tech influencer publicised the behaviour on Weibo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese super app WeChat has promised to stop regularly scanning users\u2019 photos after the behaviour was publicised by an influencer online.The country\u2019s largest social media app, with 1.25 billion monthly active users (MAUs), was found to be frequently scanning photo galleries even when not in use, sparking privacy concerns. The behaviour was publicised by a tech influencer who goes by the name Hackl0us on the microblogging platform Weibo.The Tencent Holdings\u2019 app periodically scans photo\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/big-tech\/article\/3151762\/tencents-wechat-stop-routine-scans-photos-after-tech-influencer?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese super app WeChat has promised to stop regularly scanning users\u2019 photos after the behaviour was publicised by an influencer online.The country\u2019s largest social&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23244"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}