Baidu founder Robin Li’s comments about privacy triggered public criticism and renewed concern over data protection, platform power, and weak user-rights enforcement in China.

Summary

On March 26, 2018, Li Yanhong, the chairman, and CEO of Baidu, said at the China Development High-Level Forum: “Chinese people are more open and less sensitive to privacy. In many cases, they are willing to exchange their privacy for convenience and efficiency.”, which exposed the shameless company baidu showed little concern for users privacy. Read more