Japanese Messaging App Admits to Sending User Data to China

Japanese Messaging App Admits to Sending User Data to China
This photo shows Sally, a LINE character, on display at the entrance of the LINE Friends shop in Tokyo's Harajuku district on July 12, 2016. Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP via Getty Images
Danella Pérez Schmieloz
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Japanese messaging app Line admitted it sent user data to China, exposing people’s personal information to the communist regime.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been collecting big data—the new key asset for global power—as part of its intelligence strategy, in its bid to control worldwide information and transactions.