A mobile phone shows the interface of Boss Zhipin, an online recruiting app operated by Kanzhun.
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China’s cybersecurity officials have launched investigations into three more apps operated by U.S.-listed companies, just one day after they ordered the country’s smartphone app stores to remove Didi Chuxing over the misuse of customers’ personal information. Chinese regulators are clamping down on the country’s tech companies through tighter regulations on data security.
The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said in a statement on Thursday that it had opened an investigation on Boss Zhipin, an online recruiting platform operated by Kanzhun. The Beijing-based firm, which claims to be the country’s largest online recruitment site, debuted on Nasdaq in mid-June after raising $912 million. The initial public offering turned its founder Zhao Peng into a billionaire.
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