"with the social app phone, there's no privacy."
I have to say, recently, everyone has been brushed up by this amazing news.
The Australian Financial Review said in a recent article that to protect privacy, either delete social app, or prepare two phones because "social app phones may not have privacy."
This is a rock-shattering wave!
Dare to ask what, social app is?
Social app is currently the most popular social media application in China. Since 2011, it has moved from an information tool to a super-portal with more than 900m monthly active users, and its parent Tencent, one of the world's most valuable technology companies, has a market capitalisation of more than US $500 billion (A $640 billion).
Social app, is a digital portal to China, with more than 800m users a day, depending on the power of social app, from work exchanges to dinner arrangements.
There is no need to say much about the popularity of social app in China.
But did you know that social app is so "charming" in Australia?
, social app has launched payment services in 15 countries by the end of December 2017, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Australia, as a popular destination for Chinese tourists and international students, is also one of the first overseas countries to support social app payments.
Social app's boom has benefited from the platform's payment service, social app payments, which allow local businesses to receive payments on their accounts within a short period of time, while transaction fees are lower than the average credit card.
Chinese tourists spent A $9.2 billion in Australia in 2016 and are expected to spend A $13 billion by 2020.
Just at the end of last year, nine Australian cross-border payment service providers announced partnerships with social app to facilitate the resolution of payment problems between Australian businessmen and Chinese consumers.
At the same time, more than 10, 000 stores and restaurants in Australia support social app payments. Although the services were initially used only for duty-free shops and Chinese restaurants, Australian pharmacies are now supporting social app payments, much of which comes from purchasing agents and a large number of Chinese tourists.
So, social app's going to catch up with WhatsApp in Australia!
But in a report in October 2016, Amnesty International looked at the effectiveness of encryption systems for 11 global communications software and ranked them.
Although Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp scored 73 points, Apple's FaceTime and iMessage scored 67 points, social app scored zero!
Despite Tencent's denial that it violated users' privacy, one recent case appears to be the opposite-last September, A Beijing man has been jailed for nine months for playing a joke on a terrorist group called ISIS (IS) on the social app chat group.
Australian Customs, cell phones? as sure as a gun!
Would you be surprised how Australia, such a privacy-loving country, can allow customs officers to look through social app news?
Don't even say, really.
In fact, the Australian Department of Immigration and Border Protection website has always made it clear that they have the right to view all the electronic devices of immigrants, including laptops, mobile phones, hard drives, and so on.
This includes, of course, the software on the phone-social app!
In addition, the Handbook for residence in Australia (version 2015), compiled by the Chinese Embassy in Australia, is also described in Chinese.
However, there is no need to worry, Australian customs officers here, the main purpose of the search is to find: children porn content, violent materials, terrorist materials and so on.
First, in Australia, possession and dissemination of child porn content is a very serious criminal offence, with a maximum penalty of $ two hundred and seventy thousand, or 10 years in prison.
In Australia, if terrorist activities are involved, the maximum face is life imprisonment!
Therefore, in a nutshell, the Australian International Airport Customs and Excise officers' search of electronic devices such as mobile phones and laptops is not a recent occurrence, but rather a long-standing rule on the part of the Customs and Excise officers of the Australian International Airport.
Such behavior will occur not only at Sydney's international airport, but also at other Australian airports. At the time of entry, if ordinary adult porn content is present in the electronic device, it will not be repatriated, as long as it is not children's porn content, or any other content that violates Australian law.
Canadian, American students repatriated due to social app, absolutely true
Just last year, there was a case that shocked the Chinese people-confirmed by the Chinese Embassy in Canada, when a Chinese citizen entered the border in Canada, a minor porn picture, video, and so on were stored on his personal mobile phone or computer. And by airport law enforcement personnel to find and directly repatriate home!
Because children's porn content is a felony in most countries around the world, it is already a very light penalty simply to be repatriated by Canadian customs.
And in the United States, some students were repatriated because of social app-just because a Chinese student told a friend during a social app chat more than half a year ago that "I don't like this school, I just hang up temporarily." Unexpectedly, this long-standing chat record was seen by the Customs when entering the United States more than half a year later, and was immediately repatriated to China after being interrogated for more than three hours!
What do you need to pay attention to using social app, in Australia?
1. Once you register your account in China, even if you connect social app to an Australian number, the information on your social app will be censored.
Social app's most common form of censorship is keyword blocking, which means that it does not receive information that contains sensitive words.
2. Social app accounts registered outside China are not subject to the same stringent standards as Chinese users, but if you use social app to communicate with users in China, that's not the case, and sensitive words will still be blocked.
3. In September 2017, China's authorities released new online chat regulations: the group owner is responsible for the information released by the group members.
There are many types of illegal social app content.
So, if you want to speak in the chat group initiated by the Chinese group owners, please pay attention to it!
4. At the same time, if already PR, has been found to have violated content, then the PR is also likely to be cancelled.
At the end of 2014, the Immigration Board changed section 501 of the Immigration Act, whereby foreign PR holders who have been sentenced to 12 months or more in prison will be directly disqualified from PR and deported after serving their sentence.
Therefore, we suggest that when we go in and out of the Customs, although we do not need to delete the social app, we also suggest that we should clean up the chat records, because it may have turned into today's proof of guilt, as it was said at random a few years ago!