Hide our snooping? Why bother asks China's Google clone
24 Feb 2016 at 05:30, Richard Chirgwin Sit down, so you don't injure yourself falling down in surprise: the browser provided by China's Baidu is a privacy nightmare.That's the conclusion of Canada's Citizen Lab, which watched the wire while the browser was running and needed a lie-down itself from what it found.
Baidu is China's top search engine and, like Google, the company has branched out into advertising and provides a browser.
Like all substantial enterprises in China, Baidu does its best to stay on the right side of written and unwritten government policy.
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