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Mar 21, 2019 · Information Security

Why Tencent Demanded Duoshan Remove Your WeChat Avatar: A Data Privacy Showdown

The article examines Tencent's legal push to force ByteDance's Duoshan app to stop using users' WeChat/QQ avatars and nicknames, detailing the data‑sharing dispute, the PR tactics that spiked Duoshan's DAU, and the provisional court injunction that halted the practice.