Alibaba Cloud case underlines need to strictly safeguard privacy: China Daily


On Aug 23, Alibaba Cloud said on its official Weibo account that an employee in the company's electronics sales section had given the users' information to companies that Alibaba Cloud is partnering with. - AP

BEIJING (China Daily/Asia News Network): In response to an allegation that Alibaba Cloud, a cloud computing unit of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, leaked users' registration information without their consent to some partner companies, the Zhejiang Communications Administration has reportedly asked the company to make rectifications.

On Monday (Aug 23), Alibaba Cloud said on its official Weibo account that an employee in the company's electronics sales section had given the users' information to companies that Alibaba Cloud is partnering with, for which he has been severely punished.

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