Meitu claims its collecting user data because it's in China and needs to do ad tracking

The anime-styling selfie app Meitu has exploded in popularity recently, then someone got to wondering why it was asking for so many permissions. It turns out the app is grabbing your IMEI and MAC address and sending them to a server in China. People were understandably concerned, and now Meitu has issued a statement meant to assuage our fears. It kind of doesn't, though. The statement provided to Cnet notes that Meitu is based in China, which we knew. Read More Meitu claims its collecting user data because it's in China and needs to do ad tracking was written by the awesome team at Android Police. Android Match ae http://androidmatch.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default