HONG KONG — Chinese tech titan Baidu is facing a wave of online criticism and calls for boycotts of its cloud services after the teenage daughter of one of its executives “doxxed” social media users amid a spat over a K-pop singer.
It came to light on Monday that the daughter of Vice President Xie Guangjun, who works in Baidu’s cloud unit, had repeatedly shared users’ personal information such as their real name, ID numbers and phone numbers, as well as her own father’s salary. She also made inflammatory comments such as “my family member gave me this personal information” and “you cannot catch me because I am in Canada.”
