CUHK department triggers backlash over WeChat attendance registration policy

A department at Hong Kong’s second-oldest university has faced backlash over asking students to use mainland Chinese messaging app WeChat to register their attendance and keep its location services enabled, before later saying the arrangement was optional. The policy was revealed after a screenshot of an email from the information engineering department at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) was posted to the social media platform Threads on Friday. “Starting from the next class,...