Edit: to clarify, is it going to scan my phone for credit card info and contacts etc.
https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.tencent.mm/latest/
It requires 71 permissions, which is pretty much full access to your device.
This is a huge red flag. Unless they have a strong reason to believe otherwise no one should ever install an app with permissions like that.
Isn’t WeChat the app that is used for everything in China? It’s not just a communication app. So yes, there is more than one reason for it. A lot of its probably required to perform so many functions, but also they are collecting everything on you too.
Yeah it does quite literally everything, so the permissions make a bit more sense. For me, living in China, I’d be crippled not having it. I use it to book travel, pay bills, talk, register for services, book a doctor’s appointment, pay for goods, use it as a login for other apps. The list goes on ad infinitum. If you’re using it as a chat app, you’re paying Ferrari price (in user data) for an electric scooter.
Safe in that it cannot physically harm you, otherwise, no.
Also, under normal use, you can not become pregnant. Especially if you are a guy.
That depends what you mean by “safe”.
You should expect that any WeChat account can be accessed & controlled by China government.
I hopped onto Matrix after seeing Lemmy had a field for entering your Matrix info into and while I have no one to really talk to with it yet, I like that it’s basically decentralized Discord and uses encryption on every message sent.
Is it going to scan my phone for credit card info and contacts etc.
It is. Contacts at least.
