JD Finance App’s Privacy Breach Prompts Online Backlash

JD Finance App’s Privacy Breach Prompts Online Backlash
People use their phones outside the Legislative Council offices in Hong Kong on July 26, 2016. Anthony Wallace/AFP/Getty Images
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A finance app run by Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com was recently caught storing users’ screenshots without permission, in the latest instance of privacy breaches plaguing China’s tech space.

On Feb. 16, two videos posted on China’s Weibo, a Twitter-link platform, showed how the JD Finance app stored user’s screenshots and photos without asking for permission, while the app was running in the background.

Olivia Li
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Olivia Li is a contributor to The Epoch Times with a focus on China-related topics since 2012.
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