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What WeChat Knows: Pervasive First-Party Tracking in a Billion-User Super-App Ecosystem

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STIX ID: report--cf0a8b59-d2cd-5fdb-b7d5-ad34a79f5709

Feed Name: The Citizen Lab

Date Published: 2025-08-14

Date Updated: 2026-04-19

Author: Alyson Bruce

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This document announces a PETS 2025 research paper that analyzes the WeChat Mini Programs ecosystem and finds pervasive first-party analytics enabling comprehensive tracking of user activity across the platform without opt-out options for users or developers, highlighting significant privacy implications within a billion-user super-app.

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