Japan’s Line tightens data management following China scrutiny
By Sam Nussey
TOKYO (Reuters) – SoftBank’s net enterprise Z Holdings talked about on Tuesday it’d halt entry to talk app Line’s shopper data from inside China and stop storing shopper content material materials in South Korea after media critiques end in scrutiny of the tech company’s data management.
Z Holdings Co-Ceo Takeshi Idezawa apologised at a press briefing, saying the company needed to work to regain prospects’ perception following an Asahi newspaper report that it let engineers in China entry shopper data with out informing them.
Backed by South Korea’s Naver Corp and with strongholds in Thailand, Taiwan and Indonesia, Tokyo-based Line merged with Yahoo Japan this month making a pan-Asia challenger to face down greater tech rivals.
However, Z Holdings has been left scrambling to tighten its data security as corporations …