Taiwan Flags 4 Chinese Apps Over Covert User Data Collection

The findings are a warning beyond Taiwan.

Tsai Fu-longe, director-general of the Administration for Cyber Security at Taiwan’s Ministry of Digital Affairs, speaks at a news conference in Taipei, Taiwan, on May 27, 2026. (Tai Te-man/The Epoch Times).

TAIPEI, Taiwan—Four Chinese-made apps have been found to pose cybersecurity risks to users because they secretly harvest data from users’ devices, Taiwan’s Ministry of Digital Affairs has said following an investigation.

At a news conference on May 27, the ministry’s Administration for Cyber Security (ACS) disclosed its findings on navigation app AMap, video-streaming apps Bilibili and iQIYI, and messaging app BIMOBIMO. The four apps were subjected to tests using 15 indicators across four categories: real-time monitoring, accessing data from other apps, extracting information from the user’s device, and data transmission and sharing.