{"id":217465,"date":"2018-01-02T10:57:40","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T08:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=217465"},"modified":"2018-01-02T10:57:40","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T08:57:40","slug":"wechat-denies-storing-chat-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/217465\/wechat-denies-storing-chat-history\/","title":{"rendered":"WeChat denies storing chat history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WeChat has assured that it does not store the chat history of its users after a top Chinese businessman was quoted in the media saying that the Tencent-owned messaging service was monitoring people\u2019s accounts, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-wechat-privacy\/chinas-wechat-denies-storing-user-chats-idUSKBN1ER0C3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Message history] is only stored in users\u2019 mobiles, computers and other terminals,\u201d WeChat said in a post on its platform.<\/p>\n<p>Geely Holdings chairman Li Shufu said that Tencent chair\u00a0Ma Huateng \u201cmust be watching all our WeChats every day,\u201d the report stated.<\/p>\n<p>While WeChat has said that Shufu\u2019s comment us \u201cpure misunderstanding\u201d, the platform is required to\u00a0censor public posts that the Communist Party regards as illegal.<\/p>\n<p>The Cyberspace Administration in China announced in August that it was <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/224076-wechat-weibo-and-tieba-investigated-for-breaching-regulations.html\"><strong>investigating the country\u2019s top social media sites<\/strong><\/a> for failing to ban content\u00a0which is violent, obscene, or deemed offensive.<\/p>\n<p>In September, China implemented a new rule making chat group administrators and companies accountable for breaches of content rules.<\/p>\n<p>It then\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-china-censorship\/chinas-cyber-watchdog-imposes-top-fines-on-tech-firms-over-censorship-idUSKCN1C01C4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">handed down maximum penalties<\/a><\/strong> to tech firms including Tencent, Baidu, and Weibo for failing to properly censor online content, and asked them to increase content auditing measures.<\/p>\n<p>Naspers owns a 33% stake in Tencent.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/215311\/huawei-to-launch-mobile-app-store-in-sa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Huawei to launch mobile app store in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WeChat has assured that it does not store the chat history of its users after a top Chinese businessman was quoted in the media saying that the Tencent-owned messaging service was monitoring people\u2019s accounts, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":217467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[6188],"class_list":["post-217465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-wechat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217469,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217465\/revisions\/217469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}