Perfect Corp denies ‘misleading’ privacy allegations made against its YouCam beauty apps

Published: 17-Jun-2020
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Perfect Corp, the developer of the YouCam Makeup and YouCam Perfect apps, has been accused of transferring user data to Chinese servers to sell on, and hosting spyware and malware

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Beauty app developer Perfect Corp has denied claims that it has been transferring user data to Chinese servers in order to sell it on.

The developer of the YouCam Makeup and YouCam Perfect beauty apps faces several allegations made in

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