Facebook reacted to China’s imposition of a national security law in Hong Kong last week by revealing Monday that requests for Facebook and WhatsApp user data from law enforcement agents in the special administrative region were suspended.
Messaging application Telegram took similar steps, as well, telling Hong Kong Free Press that it will not process data requests from authorities until an international consensus is reached on last week’s moves, and telling The Wall Street Journal it never shared user data with authorities from the SAR in the past.
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