By Shawn Lim

In early March 2020, Chinese super-app WeChat announced it was tightening privacy controls on third-party apps to restrict the collection of sensitive personal information to a smaller group of developers, citing “the recent coronavirus epidemic (Covid-19) prevention and control” as a reason.

Under the Tencent-owned platform’s new privacy controls, developers have to explain what personal information they are collecting and how. Information can only be gathered on a need-to-know basis for mini-programs, which run within the WeChat platform.

They must also include information about the types of personal data they are collecting and how they are Read full story ›

Source: The Drum