Hui said the time period and nature of some offences āoverlappedā and thus their prison terms could be served concurrently. The judge ordered Ng to be jailed for a total of six years and six months. Developing social channels based on exchanging a single message isnāt exactly new, of course. Back in 2014, the āYoā app was launched with the sole purpose of enabling users to send each other the greeting āYo.ā You can invite up to 200 people from your contacts to join your channel as the next step. Select the users you want to add and click āInvite.ā You can skip this step altogether. The imprisonment came as Telegram said it was "surprised" by claims that privacy commissioner Ada Chung Lai-ling is seeking to block the messaging app due to doxxing content targeting police and politicians. On Tuesday, some local media outlets included Sing Tao Daily cited sources as saying the Hong Kong government was considering restricting access to Telegram. Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data Ada Chung told to the Legislative Council on Monday that government officials, police and lawmakers remain the targets of ādoxxingā despite a privacy law amendment last year that criminalised the malicious disclosure of personal information.
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