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Weibo, peers' display of user locations in China stirs questions over personal information breaches

By MLex Staff ( April 20, 2022, 09:54 GMT | Insight) -- Chinese social platforms, including Sina Weibo, which operates China’s equivalent of Twitter, recently started to display user locations based on Internet Protocol, or IP, addresses — a move that has sparked controversy over personal information breaches. The locations can help identify users when read together with account names, posts and registration information such as phone numbers. The failure to obtain separate consent from individual users for the display may constitute a breach of China’s Personal Information Protection Law, legal experts said.Chinese social platforms, including Sina Weibo, which operates China’s equivalent of Twitter, recently started to display user locations based on Internet Protocol, or IP, addresses — a move that has sparked controversy over personal information breaches....

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