Phoenix.com reported that the latest news from lawyer Zhu Keliang of the US WeChat User Association: The US Department of Justice submitted some internal government documents to the court the night before. In addition to a confidential document that can only be seen by the judge, the most important thing is an 18-page report on WeChat signed by the Minister of Commerce on September 17. This report disclosed for the first time that Tencent had recently privately proposed a number of settlement proposals to the U.S. government. These proposals were intended to allay the U.S. government’s concerns about the security of US WeChat users’ data.
Tencent proposed the following solutions:
* Create a US version of WeChat app for US WeChat users
* Set up relevant measures to ensure the security of the US version of WeChat source code
* Store US WeChat user data in the cloud provided by the US company
* The US version of WeChat will be managed by a newly established US company whose corporate management structure is approved by the US government
* The source code of the US version of WeChat is submitted to a third-party independent regulatory agency for review (to prevent possible “backdoors”)
* Periodic data audit and data transmission notification system for the US version of WeChat
* Establish a strict data management system to restrict company personnel from freely accessing user information
It can be said that the solutions proposed by Tencent above are good enough. But the conclusion of this report is: Tencent is not trustworthy at all. Only if Tencent completely abandons the ownership of WeChat is the only acceptable solution.
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