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UC Browser found to leak data such as location, search details: Research group

Posted on May 23, 2015 by pogowasright.org

Reuters reports:

A popular mobile web browser from a company that Alibaba paid more than $1 billion for last year leaks sensitive user data and is a privacy risk, a Canadian technology research group said on Thursday.

Citizen Lab said Chinese and English-language versions of UC Browser, developed by UCWeb Inc, made easily available to third parties personally identifiable information like location, search details and mobile subscriber and device numbers.

Read more on FirstPost.

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