Your enemy’s enemy is your friend. It’s “safe” as it will not try to steal your crenditials. Although it is a privacy nightmare itself but think as people in China wouldn’t care much about Google’s privacy policy as noone will use the information against them.
When my relatives went to China, I did a factory reset on an old phone and installed only WeChat on it, used that to communicate. It was only for a few months, worked for me, might work for you?
If you don’t feel comfortable using it, talk to your coworkers about your concern and see what they think, and ask them if they are more comfortable switching to something else for work.
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.
You probably shouldn't trust it. Be aware that the CCP will have access to whatever WeChat has access to. Also WeChat will censor/report things based on CCP demands. This might be more important if you have friends and family the CCP can touch or talk to people with that concern.
More modern phones ask for permission to give an app access to contacts or whatever but the app will probably ask. I wouldn't put it past them to have some sort of exploit but they probably wouldn't use it as long as they want access to app stores. If you have to get it off some random site it's probably fucked though.
Which is a pretty damn low bar. I get what you're saying, but comparing it to The Zucc isn't doing it any favors. Facebook will mine out absolutely every piece of data that isn't nailed down and infer the rest from what they can cross-reference.
That’s what I meant. People don’t think twice about installing fb or twitter but freak out about the idea of Chinese apps. Even if it’s all the same crap.
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