Elon Musk’s “X Corp” is back at it. The company’s latest X-themed product is XChat, a messaging app built for X users to securely chat with one another. The app is currently available to preorder on the iOS App Store with an April 17 release date, and advertises itself as an end-to-end encrypted chat app free from ads or tracking. That sounds like a great pitch, especially if you’re someone who frequently messages other X users. The problem is, the pitch doesn’t seem entirely accurate.
As Mashable’s Jack Dawes highlights, XChat’s app privacy policies are a bit out of alignment with its promises. If you scroll to the “App Privacy” section of XChat’s App Store page, you’ll see that the app has declared it may collect the following data points, and link them to your identity:
Location
Contacts
Search History
Usage Data
Contact Info
User Content
Identifiers
Diagnostics
X Corp also says it may collect additional “User
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