Chinese Communist Party officials admitted on May 1 that 33 APPs such as Tencent Maps, Sogou Input Method and Baidu Maps under Tencent secretly collected users’ personal information.
According to the Notice on the Illegal and Illegal Collection and Use of Personal Information by 33 APPs, such as Input Method, Map Navigation and other common types of APPs used by the public, 33 APPs were found to have illegally collected users’ personal information, involving Tencent Maps, Sogou Input Method, Baidu Maps and other apps owned by Tencent. Baidu’s Baidu Maps, etc.
Among the notified input method APPs, Sogou, Xunfei, Baidu, Octopus, Handy, QQ, TouchPal, Micro Pulse, Universal Pen, Quick Input, Fun Keyboard, Cool Input Method, Key Duo, NUR, GO15 APPs are involved in violating the principle of necessity by collecting personal information unrelated to the services they provide, etc.
In addition, 17 APPs in the map navigation category, such as Gaode Map, Baidu Map, Tencent Map, Beidou Navigation, Navigation Dog and Voice Navigation, are involved in violating the principle of necessity by collecting personal information unrelated to the services they provide, etc.
Instant messaging APP Lianxin induced users to authorize the reading of their cell phone address book information and send marketing messages to address book contacts.
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