Cybersecurity researcher Wish Wu recently cancelled his scheduled discussion at the Black Hat Asia hacking conference in Singapore after being told by his employer Ant Financial, to withdraw. Wu was supposed to present a talk entitled “Bypass Strong Face ID: Everyone Can Deceive Depth and...
In a Reddit post last week, Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney denied claims that his company had been sharing user data with the Chinese government via Tencent, an investor in the company since 2013. Sweeney said that he would never allow such sharing to happen and...
Reuters recently revealed that it is now becoming easier and cheaper to personal data in China, based on interviews with various sellers and financiers. Despite the introduction of the country’s most comprehensive data protection laws to date, it is said that organizations such as insurance...
A recent report from Penguin Intelligence, Tencent’s research arm, suggests that the Chinese are increasingly showing concern on privacy-related issues. Despite the popular notion that Chinese netizens do not value their privacy, the data from the study says that 35% of 1,285 users said that...
Tencent senior executive vice president Seng Yee Lau recently remarked that the tech industry need to address mounting privacy concerns of users, as well as the risks brought by advancing technologies. Lau, along with other executives from the tech industry, went to Paris this week to...
Privacy concerns were recently raised by a photo editing app by Tencent that has gone viral in China. The app, called “Picture of my Past Life in Chinese”, is said to have collected around 80 million images in the span of only a few days. Experts...
Chinese tech titans are now feeling the backlash of consumer concerns regarding privacy after a billion dollar deal between the US government and Tencent’s Ant Financial Services Group failed to materialize. It is said that privacy and security questions are likely to hound the two...
China’s most popular messaging platform, WeChat, recently denied allegations that it was storing chat histories. The Tencent-owned app chalked the criticisms as a matter of “pure misunderstanding”. It is said that the allegations were started by a comment of Li Shufu, a Chinese businessman, who recently...