{"id":1198509,"date":"2023-10-31T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1198509"},"modified":"2023-10-31T16:15:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T20:15:00","slug":"wechat-deemed-a-security-risk-banned-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1198509","title":{"rendered":"WeChat Deemed a Security Risk, Banned in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/611cb7cb5d88a8302b1e911295369dfd.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Canada banned WeChat on government-issued phones on Monday, roughly two years after the Biden administration <a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 lcFFec js_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/06\/09\/1004750274\/biden-replaces-trump-bans-on-tiktok-wechat-with-order-to-scrutinize-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lifted<\/a> American bans on the Chinese \u201ceverything\u201d app. The Chief Information Officer of Canada says WeChat presents an unacceptable level of risk to privacy and security, in a <a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 lcFFec js_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/treasury-board-secretariat\/news\/2023\/10\/minister-anand-announces-a-ban-on-the-use-of-wechat-and-kaspersky-suite-of-applications-on-government-mobile-devices.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/wechat-deemed-security-risk-banned-in-canada-1850977922\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Gizmodo &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/wechat-deemed-security-risk-banned-in-canada-1850977922\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WeChat Deemed a Security Risk, Banned in Canada<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada banned WeChat on government-issued phones on Monday, roughly two years after the Biden administration lifted American bans on the Chinese \u201ceverything\u201d app. The Chief Information Officer of Canada says WeChat presents an unacceptable level of risk to privacy and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1198509\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1198510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,110],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-1198509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gizmodo","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-gizmodo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1198509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1198510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1198509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1198509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1198509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}