Source: Tech – South China Morning PostChina has called out 291 smartphone apps, including those under Microsoft’s popular Office suite, for misleading or infringing on user privacy, as regulatory authorities intensified the crackdown on how tech companies collect data.Software giant Microsoft’s Word, Excel and PowerPoint were among the apps that made mandatory, frequent or excessive requests for user permissions, according to a notice posted on the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) website on Tuesday.The MIIT…Read More