Data collection issue identified in Baidu Maps and Baidu Search Box apps. Both apps were removed from the Play Store in October 2020 after a Google investigation, with Baidu Search Box making a comeback last week.
The two apps —Baidu Maps and Baidu Search Box— were removed after Google received a report from US cyber-security firm Palo Alto Networks claiming that the two apps contained code that collected information about users.
According to Palo Alto Networks, the data collection code was found in the Baidu Push SDK, used to show real-time notifications inside both apps.
The code collected details such as phone model, MAC address, carrier information, and IMSI (International Mobile Subscriber Identity) number, according to Stefan Achleitner and Chengcheng Xu, the two Palo Alto Networks researchers who identified the data collection behavior.
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