LINE, a Japanese messaging app, admitted it sent user data to China, exposing people’s personal information to the communist regime, reported The Register. 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. LINE’s parent company, Z-Holdings, released a report on Oct. 18 stating some of the app’s data was handled in China. They hadn’t considered that the regime might access it, and neglected Japan’s economic security, according to The Register. A Special Advisory Committee on Global Data Governance prepared the report after it was divulged that LINE processed data in China and stored it in South Korea, said The Register. Any data passed to China is readily available to the CCP. Chinese laws dictate that any digital information that a company holds must be turned over to the Chinese …
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