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WeChat

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer

Incident 2165 Reports
WeChat’s Machine Translation Gave a Racist English Translation for the Chinese Term for “Black Foreigner”

2017-10-10

The Chinese platform WeChat provided an inappropriate and racist English translation for the Chinese term for “black foreigner” in its messaging app.

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Incidents involved as Developer

Incident 2241 Report
WeChat Pay's Facial Recognition Security Evaded by Scammers Using Victims’ Social Media Content

2020-07-01

In China, fraudsters bypassed facial-recognition security for online financial transactions on WeChat Pay by crafting identity-verification GIFs of victims from their selfies on WeChat Moments, a social media platform.

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Black WeChat users

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  • Incident 216
    5 Reports

    WeChat’s Machine Translation Gave a Racist English Translation for the Chinese Term for “Black Foreigner”

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WeChat Pay

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 224
    1 Report

    WeChat Pay's Facial Recognition Security Evaded by Scammers Using Victims’ Social Media Content

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WeChat Pay users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 224
    1 Report

    WeChat Pay's Facial Recognition Security Evaded by Scammers Using Victims’ Social Media Content

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