Researchers: Baidu Maps and the Baidu App, with ~1.4B downloads globally, were leaking sensitive user data; Baidu Maps remains removed from Google's Play Store (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)

Thomas Brewster / Forbes:
Researchers: Baidu Maps and the Baidu App, with ~1.4B downloads globally, were leaking sensitive user data; Baidu Maps remains removed from Google's Play Store  —  Two apps developed by Chinese tech giant Baidu were leaking “sensitive” user data that potentially left as many as 1.4 billion users open …

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