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SoftBank Denies 'Mimamori GPS' Shares Location Data With China — Japan Doesn't Buy It
SoftBank issued a formal denial that its child-locator 'Mimamori GPS' provides or shares user location data with China, after concerns spread online. Japanese commenters, citing the earlier LINE data-handling incident, treated the denial with deep skepticism. A separate but adjacent story — a Chinese reporter being escorted around the Henoko protest site — was bundled into the same conversation about data and political influence from China. (Note: this post discusses two adjacent but distinct stories — the Mimamori GPS denial and the Henoko reporter — that Japanese summary sites grouped together as one 'China risk' theme.)