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WeChat Responds to Netizens Opposed to Apps’ Background Access of User Photo Albums
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Oct 11, 2021
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Chinese web user posted on domestic microblogging platform Sina Weibo on Friday, saying that “WeChat, QQ, Taobao and many other apps repeatedly read albums in the background system.”

The netizen says that after enabling iOS15’s new privacy feature ‘Record App Activity’ and monitoring the privacy reading behavior of all apps for seven days, a…

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