Didi probe needed for national security, says, Global Times

BEIJING (Bloomberg): Didi Global Inc’s hoard of personal data poses a threat to individual privacy as well as national security, the Global Times said in a commentary that lauded China’s scrutiny of the ride-hailing giant.

The firm undoubtedly has the most detailed travel information on individuals among large internet firms and appears to have the ability to conduct "big data analysis” of individual behaviors and habits, the Communist Party-backed newspaper wrote Monday (July 5).

To protect personal data as well as national security, China must be even stricter in its oversight of Didi’s data security, given that it’s listed in the US and its two largest shareholders are foreign companies, it added.