Pilot program in Guangzhou, one of China's largest cities, allows residents to link their national ID cards to Tencent's WeChat, may roll out nationwide in Jan.
and can't—do with your WeChat account in China Rob Thubron / TechSpot : China turns to WeChat for virtual state IDs Timothy J. Seppala / Engadget : WeChat accounts could double as state IDs in China PYMNTS.com : WeChat Tying In With China's National ID Cards Masha Borak / TechNode : Leave your wallet at home, WeChat is now issuing ID cards Zoey Chong / CNET : China is testing an electronic identification system on WeChat Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer.com : China Tests Using WeChat Social Network Account as Official Electronic ID Coco Feng / Caixin Global : Don't Have Your ID? WeChat Will Do ecns : China to roll out smartphone ID cards in 2018 Tweets: Romit Mehta / @theromit : Remember the outrage from the Indian media when the (biometric) national ID was planned to be linked to various social sites? http://www.techmeme.com/... Lester Nare / @lesternare : We are so far behind in the US and focused on inconsequential issues that I fear we will never truly catch back up http://twitter.com/... Wouter van Noort / @wvnoort : “One of China's largest cities will allow residents to link their national identity cards to the ubiquitous mobile messaging and social-media app WeChat using facial recognition, further enmeshing Chinese consumers into Tencent's technology ecosystem”: http://www.ft.com/... @financialtimes : If rolled out across China, the move will enmesh more than 902m users of the mobile messaging and social media app into the hugely profitable Chinese group's technology ecosystem http://www.ft.com/...