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Facebook, others block requests on Hong Kong user data

by AP Business Writer
| July 6, 2020 12:27 PM

HONG KONG (AP) — Social media platforms and messaging apps including Facebook, WhatsApp, Telegram, Google and Twitter say they will deny law enforcement requests for user data in Hong Kong while studying ramifications of a national security law enacted last week.

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