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Live Chat for the messaging era: #WeChat, Mini-Programs, WeCom, and web chat. Follow for regular updates on consumer and workplace #Messaging

[Grata @grata_co]

China's new Personal Information Protection Law (个人信息保护法), aka "PIPL", goes into effect November 1st. Companies are nervous. Highlights in the thread... 🧵

Full text in English & Chinese: https://t.co/Wni7VG6OdY #China #privacy

[Tom Gara @tomgara]

Google Duo is being merged into Google Meet, formerly known as Hangouts Meet, which is not to be confused with Google Chat, which is a separate app previously known as Hangouts Chat, which replaced Google Talk, Google+ Messenger, and Google+ Hangouts https://t.co/Hzv1YTEpQ0

[Grata @grata_co]

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[Internal Tech Emails @TechEmails]

Mark Zuckerberg on Messenger

December 9, 2013

[Grata @grata_co]

Snap quietly working away on their #AR spectacles 🕶️

[SPECS for Devs @specsfordevs]

For @DonAllenIII, wearable AR is enhancing what it is to be human, integrating and connecting with the world. With emerging technologies like VoiceML, Hand Tracking, and Connected Lenses, we can activate experiences with human-centric actions. #SnapPartnerSummit

[Grata @grata_co]

🛡️ You can now mark data as sensitive in #Tencent Sheet to limit visibility of the values to only you and the document owner. Smart 💡

No doubt inspired by the recent China data privacy law (PIPL). It's available in the latest #WeCom update v4.0.6.

[Grata @grata_co]

Snap sticks to its mantra that it's a camera company with a no frills, pocket selfie drone. Cool.
https://t.co/Pf0MRyG6Ir

[Grata @grata_co]

"Beijing has grown concerned about the rapid and relatively unregulated growth of the live-streaming sector, which frequently features sexualized content and has generated complaints of fraud and deceptive behavior." https://t.co/VtUQuSPC2x

[Andrew Schorr @Andrew_Schorr]

How I imagined #WeChat live streaming vs reality 🧵

[Grata @grata_co]

China internet regulators are looking at "combating fraud, mobile-phone addiction and unhealthy online spending." https://t.co/n1uGiPuNmV #LiveStreaming

[Grata @grata_co]

👀 Interesting acquisition: Bytedance's Lark (aka Feishu) workplace messenger expands with acquisition of Hipa Cloud (黑怕云), a no-code hub for sales pipeline, CRM, and product management. https://t.co/uexG6sLEqa #messaging

[Grata @grata_co]

A breakup is just speculation for now, but Tencent's $400B market cap is roughly half what it was a year ago; trading at just 17x forward 12-month earnings, less than half its own 5-year average
https://t.co/4mYnuyb6YF

[Grata @grata_co]

Fascinating long read on the origin story and inner workings of the innovative, enigmatic #messaging app #Telegram. Unreal what they have built with a team of thirty. https://t.co/wRCRlkEcDQ

[Grata @grata_co]

It did not.
https://t.co/ys8XzkFbLD

[Grata @grata_co]

Bytedance launches 飞聊 (Fei Liao) aka 'FlipChat', an 'interest-based social #messaging app'. Will it challenge #WeChat?
https://t.co/lebZ5Stk95

[Grata @grata_co]

#WhatsApp pilots in-app, zero-fee, P2P crypto transfers using Meta's in-house wallet @novi and stable coin @PaxDollarUSDP https://t.co/nXHQg2CJvQ

[Grata @grata_co]

The walled gardens keep coming down. Soon. #WeChat users will be able to open formerly blocked links to #Taobao any hour now... but not yet https://t.co/31WAjGMhHw

[Eugene Wei @eugenewei]

Results from survey of the incoming freshman class at Harvard. Roughly 1 in 4 say they don't have a Facebook account. The TikTok usage figures are bonkers.
https://t.co/2zc3WhGjQx

[Grata @grata_co]

Privacy Policy checklist:
-the purpose, method, and scope of handling (Art.7)
-retention period
-instructions how to exercise rights
-personal name and contact info of DPO (17-18)
-the same for any third-parties (23)

[Grata @grata_co]

China's new Personal Information Protection Law (个人信息保护法), aka "PIPL", goes into effect November 1st. Companies are nervous. Highlights in the thread... 🧵

Full text in English & Chinese: https://t.co/Wni7VG6OdY #China #privacy

[Grata @grata_co]

There's a push for encryption, de-identification, and anonymization, which may make it possible for a company to avoid mandatory individual notification in the event of a leak: