Home News Computing (Image credit: Alexskopje / Shutterstock) China’s internet watchdog has put Bing, LinkedIn and over 100 hundred other apps on notice for illegally collecting and overusing the personal data of their users.As reported by the South China Morning Post, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) discovered that 105 apps had violated several of the country’s data privacy laws after receiving complaints from users. The CAC then made its findings public in a notice posted on its official WeChat account.Apps created by a number of Western and Chinese tech giants made the list including ByteDance’s TikTok and its Chinese counterpart Douyin, Microsoft’s search app Bing and its professional social network LinkedIn, Tencent’s music streaming service Kugou and Baidu’s mobile browser.We’ve assembled a list of the best VPN services aroundThese are the best privacy apps for Android smartphonesAlso check, out our roundup of the best anonymous browsersAll of the 105 apps that were found to illegally access and over-collect the data of their users have 15 business days to rectify these violations or face penalties from the Chinese government.Data privacy crackdownEarlier this month, new regulations from China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) came into effect and since then,…
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LinkedIn, Bing among apps slammed by Chinese government over data collection
