Baidu stresses strong data privacy measures after executive’s daughter doxes netizen, 21 March 2025

Baidu, China’s leading internet search firm and artificial intelligence (AI) powerhouse, has denied that the company breached user privacy after an incident involving the teenage daughter of a senior executive exposed the personal information of another netizen [...]

In a statement released on Wednesday [19 March 2025] night, the Beijing-based company stressed its “zero tolerance” policy towards breaches of user privacy [...]

The controversy began when the 13-year-old daughter of Xie Guangjun, a vice-president at Baidu, posted the information of a user online in a practice known as doxxing.

The incident has raised concerns about data privacy among users and poses potential business risks for Baidu, which offers cloud storage services and AI chatbot applications.

The company stressed that no executive or employee is authorised to access private user data [...]

Seeking to restore public trust [...] Baidu established a dedicated fund to combat cybercrime and announced plans to form an “anti-doxxing” alliance [...]