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China fines Didi $1.2 billion for breaking data-security laws

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Updated July 21, 2022 at 7:40 a.m. EDT|Published July 21, 2022 at 5:14 a.m. EDT
The Didi app on a smartphone in Shanghai. The ride-hailing giant has been fined more than $1 billion by Chinese regulators for data-security breaches. (Qilai Shen/Bloomberg News)
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China’s cybersecurity regulator fined ride-hailing juggernaut Didi Global $1.2 billion after a year-long probe, saying it had violated laws on data security and the protection of personal information.

The Cyberspace Administration of China said Thursday that Didi, a 10-year-old Chinese company based in Beijing, illegally collected 12 million pieces of “screenshot information” from users’ mobile photo albums and excessively accumulated 107 million pieces of passenger facial recognition information and 1.4 million pieces of family relationship information, among other violations.