Canada bans WeChat, Kaspersky apps on government mobile phones

Canadian state officials are now banned from using the messaging app WeChat and the antivirus program Kaspersky on government-issued mobile devices due to "unacceptable" privacy and security risks because of their associations with China and Russia, respectively. The Canadian government is concerned that WeChat and Kaspersky's data collection methods on mobile devices “provide significant access

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