Tencent has denied it stores or analyses users’ communications from China’s most popular messaging platform, WeChat, apparently putting it at odds with government rules that require social media groups to store user records.
“Recently, it has been said that we ‘read your WeChat messages every day’ . . . please do not worry, user privacy has always been one of our most important principles,” wrote Tencent, China’s most valuable listed technology company, on Tuesday.
“Conversation histories are only stored on the user’s smartphone, computer or other [user] terminals,” Tencent said, adding that “the rumour that ‘we look at your WeChat messages every day’ is pure falsehood”.
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