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If it's illegal under the GDPR to send the data of EU citizens with browser language set to Chinese to Tencent, it's also illegal to send the data of EU citizens with browser language set to anything else to Google. Chrome, Firefox, Safari and probably all Chromium-based browsers (unless they disable Safe Browsing by default) use Google's API and would be in violation, too.


That's true, but it's probably covered in the privacy notice. It doesn't make a difference that the data is shared outside of EU, it just has to be communicated to the user.

Also, the data shared here is not personal information, unless it's connected with personal information such as IP address or a tracking cookie.

This is pretty gray area. Apple isn't necessarily sharing information with Google, it's just the property of Internet traffic that Google / Tencent can collect the IP address from the request. Same happens when websites include resources from other websites (images, scripts, etc.), and these are not typically taken into account in GDPR privacy notices.


Apple says that they share your IP address and that it “may” be recorded by TenCent and Google.


That's not necessarily true, since the GDPR imposes extra restrictions to sending data to countries not covered by the GDPR (essentially, outside the EEA) or that are deemed by the EU to offer equivalent protection. I don't know where Tencent has these servers, but Google has servers in the EU and managed by an EU-based subsidiary.




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