Didi makes privacy fixes to ousted apps in run-up to restoring them - SCMP

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21/06/2022 15:32

June 21 (Reuters) - Chinese ride-hailing firm Didi Global
 DIDIY.PK  is making final updates to address cybersecurity
concerns on its apps that were ousted from domestic app stores
last year, the South China Morning Post reported on Tuesday,
citing two sources familiar with the matter. 
    The fixes focus on data compliance, especially to observe
multiple new rules on privacy protection and app user consent,
the report https://bit.ly/3xHzxgC said, adding the apps could
soon be restored.
    Earlier this month, the Wall Street Journal reported Chinese
regulators were concluding probes into Didi and two other firms
and were preparing to allow their apps back on domestic app
stores, in a sign that pressure on China's internet sector was
easing.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N2XT1GW
    Didi did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for
comment.
    Didi has struggled to bring its business back to normal
after angering Chinese regulators by pushing ahead with its $4.4
billion New York listing in June last year despite being asked
to put it on hold. 
    Days after Didi went public, China's powerful internet
watchdog, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), launched
a cybersecurity probe into the company's data practices and
ordered app stores to remove 25 mobile apps operated by Didi.
    The firm delisted its shares from the New York Stock
Exchange on Friday, and moved to the over-the-counter market.
The stock closed at $2.81, a fraction of the company's initial
public offering price of $14.

 (Reporting by Eva Mathews in Bengaluru; Editing by Maju Samuel)
 ((Eva.Mathews@thomsonreuters.com;))