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Apple responds to reports that it sends user traffic to China’s Tencent

Posted on October 15, 2019 by pogowasright.org

Catalin Cimpanu reports:

Apple has issued a statement today following a slew of misleading and poorly-researched media reports that were published over the weekend, claiming that the Safari web browser was secretly sending user traffic to Chinese company Tencent.

All the reports were anchored in a recent discovery that Apple had implemented a second “safe browsing” system within Safari.

Read more on ZDNet.  For another perspective, read cryptographer Matthew Green’s blog post.

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