Messaging app Line faces Japan action over user privacy flaws

Chinese engineers had access to personal data but no laws broken, panel finds

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Line provides Japan's leading messaging app. (Photo by Kosaku Mimura)

Nikkei staff writers

TOKYO -- Messaging app provider Line will receive guidance on corrective action soon from a Japanese commission after revelations that software engineers in China had access to the personal information of users, Nikkei has learned.

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