Ma Huateng said "extremely unsafe", the bean group team responded that the mobile assistant follows the privacy guidelines.

On January 26th, Tencent's chairman Pony Ma mentioned the Duobao mobile assistant, a product of ByteDance, in an internal meeting, criticizing it for "using external plug-ins to screen record and upload to the cloud, which is extremely insecure and irresponsible." The Duobao mobile assistant team later posted on Weibo, emphasizing that they only access necessary capabilities with user consent and follow a privacy guideline of "no storage, no training."