The American oil giant identified WeChat as a ‘non-compliant application’ in a staff email, asking those who installed the app on their work handsets to delete it within days – or they will be disconnected from the company’s network, according to the memo. — Bloomberg
Chevron Corp has asked its global employees to remove Tencent Holdings Ltd’s WeChat from their work phones, making it one of the first US companies to heed the Trump administration’s executive order banning the Chinese social app on alleged national security risks.
The American oil giant identified WeChat as a “non-compliant application” in a staff email, asking those who installed the app on their work handsets to delete it within days – or they will be disconnected from the company’s network, according to the memo viewed by Bloomberg News.
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