Why Apple may send an IP address to China's Tencent Safe Browsing serviceFraudulent Website Warning is the feature to blame
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Apple may send the IP address of Safari users on iOS to Chinese company Tencent.
The revelation was found in the terms of Apple's "Fraudulent Website Warning" feature.
Conglomerate Tencent has strong ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
A report via Reclaim the Net has revealed Apple added Tencent Safe Browsing checks to the existing Google Safe Browsing checks as early as February of 2019. As part of that service, when checking if a website is fraudulent or not, Apple may send the IP address of the user to Tencent. Given the recent press cycle concerning Chinese influence over U.S. tech companies in general and apple in particular, this has raised some concerns.
According to the report:
Now it's been discovered that Apple, which often positions itself as a champion of privacy and human rights, is sending some IP addresses from users of its Safari browser on iOS to Chinese conglomerate Tencent – a c...
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Why Apple may send an IP address to China's Tencent Safe Browsing service
