Asia Chats: Analyzing Information Controls and Privacy in Asian Messaging Applications - The Citizen LabIntroduction Across Asia, a new class of instant messaging (IM) mobile applications are rapidly growing in popularity and amassing enormous user bases. These applications encompass more than text, voice, and video chat as they offer social networking platforms that include expressive emoticons and stickers (known as “emoji”), photo and video sharing, e-commerce, gaming, and other features that pro
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