British by the sticker. Chinese by the stack.
A 'British born' super app pays UK students to recruit friends, requires Mandarin for the China team, and rewrote its privacy policy to drop the name of the US-blacklisted company whose servers it runs on.
Source article: UK student super app ZyMix uses servers from US-blacklisted Tencent.
Column metadata
- Published
- Pen name
- Editorial Board
- Topic tags
- economy, government
- Primary entities
- ZyMix, Tencent Holdings, Flicknmix, US Department of Defense, MI5, Tarique Ghaffur, Fraser Sampson, Sam Dunning, China General Technology Research Institute
- Themes
- consumer data privacy, UK-China technology ties, US military company designation, campus recruitment, app infrastructure
- Floor values engaged
- Accountability of power, Informed citizenship, Truthfulness