Taiwan Flags 4 Chinese Apps Over Covert User Data Collection

Taiwan Flags 4 Chinese Apps Over Covert User Data Collection Taiwan’s Ministry of Digital Affairs has announced that four Chinese applications exhibit cybersecurity risks due to secret data harvesting. The apps identified are AMap, Bilibili, iQIYI, and BIMOBIMO. Investigations revealed that AMap presented the most significant risk, failing multiple testing indicators.

• Taiwan’s Ministry of Digital Affairs identified four Chinese apps with cybersecurity risks.
• The apps secretly harvest data from user devices.
• Identified apps include navigation app AMap, video-streaming apps Bilibili and iQIYI, and messaging app BIMOBIMO.
• AMap, also known as Gaode Maps, was found to pose the greatest risk.
• Tests evaluated apps across 15 indicators in four categories: real-time monitoring, accessing data from other apps, extracting device information, and data transmission/sharing.