Even applications such as WhatsApp take privacy very seriously and offer end-to-end encryption to ensure that your messages cannot be intercepted by any government or non-government agency.

There are even applications like Telegram that are completely open-source and thus offer much better security and fewer chances of your data being misused. There are multiple instant messaging apps in the market right now, most of them offer more privacy and security than WeChat. WeChat has previously been involved in a few privacy-related controversies in the past and this raises suspicion on how and what data is collected by the app and how it might be used by the developers in their best interest.Īlso Read: How To Remove All Chinese Apps From Your Smartphone!

WeChat comes with a lot of features and supports voice and video calls alongside instant messaging. WeChat is a popular instant messaging platform from China, and it is one of the 59 Chinese apps that were banned by the Government of India.