Apple criticised for sending some browsing data to Tencent

This isn’t the first time Apple has been criticised for working with a Chinese company to handle local data. — AFP

Apple Inc recently came under fire for sending web browsing data, including IP addresses, to China’s Tencent Holdings Ltd, the latest criticism of how the company operates in the world’s most populous nation.

For about two years, Apple has been sending data to Tencent as part of an iPhone and iPad security feature that warns users if a website is malicious or unsafe before they load it. The US company checks addresses against an existing list of sites known to be problematic. That list is maintained by Tencent for users in mainland China and by Google for other regions, including in the US.