China’s WeChat denies that it stores user chats

Almaty. January 4. Silkroadnews - China’s WeChat denies that it stores user chats, CNBC reports.
“Tencent Holdings’ WeChat, China’s most popular messenger app, denied storing users’ chat histories, after a top businessman was quoted in media reports as saying he believed Tencent was monitoring everyone’s account,” the report says.
“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 analyze user chats, the rumor that ‘we are watching your WeChat everyday’ is pure misunderstanding.”
Liu Shufu, the head of the company Geely Holdings, owner of the Volvo car brand, said in Chinese media on Monday Tencent Chairman Ma Huateng “must be watching all our WeChats every day”.
Like all Chinese social networks, WeChat is required to censor user messages and block those that the Chinese Communist Party considers as illegal. According to the privacy policy, WeChat user information can be disclosed “in response to a request from a government authority, law enforcement agency or similar body.”