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China's WeChat Denies Storing User Chats (reuters.com)

Posted by msmash on from the he-said-she-said dept.

WeChat, China's most popular messenger app, on Tuesday denied storing users' chat histories, after a top businessman was quoted in media reports as saying he believed Tencent was monitoring everyone's account. From a report: " WeChat does not store any users' chat history. That is only stored in users' mobiles, computers and other terminals," WeChat said in a post on the social media platform. "WeChat will not use any content from user chats for big data analysis. Because of WeChat's technical model that does not store or analyse user chats, the rumour that 'we are watching your WeChat everyday' is pure misunderstanding." More than 900 million people use WeChat.

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  1. Re:Riiiiiiight...... by Kiuas · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Coming from the government that was able to get a screen shot of what anyone in a public internet cafe was doing in real time 10 years ago.

    This is not coming from the government. This is coming from the company.

    It's perfectly possible that everything they've said is accurate, they only stated that they themselves are not monitoring the chats, they never claimed that they've not given the government access to the data for them to be able to do monitoring, which is certainly happening.

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    "It is the business of the future to be dangerous" -Alfred North Whitehead
  2. Re:Riiiiiiight...... by Ritz_Just_Ritz · · Score: 3, Informative

    Heh. Do you think for a second that a company of that scale operating in China doesn't have an ownership roster that reads like a who's who of the communist party in China (and close family relatives). Don't kid yourself.