China News Service, Beijing, March 16 (Reporter Liu Yuying) According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China on the 16th, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has carried out special rectification actions for APP (mobile application) infringement of users' rights and interests for two consecutive years. As of March 2021, A total of 730,000 APPs were completed technical inspections, 3,046 illegal apps were ordered to be rectified, and 179 apps that refused to be rectified were removed from the shelves.

　　According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology immediately organized and carried out technical inspections to verify the existence of cheating in response to the four apps of Memory Optimization Master, Smart Clean Master, Super Clean Master, and Mobile Phone Manager pro exposed at the "3.15" Gala of China Central Radio and Television in 2021. Misleading users in downloading and handling personal information in violation of regulations has required major application stores to be removed, and the communications administrations of Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Guangdong have been organized to investigate and deal with the entities involved.

　　In the previous special rectification actions, 300 apps that deceive and mislead users to download problems were ordered to rectify, 37 models were publicly notified, and 3 models were removed from the shelves; for mobile phone butlers, memory optimization, and garbage cleaning apps that had problems with handling personal information in violation of regulations, Ordered rectification of 75 models, publicly notified 20 models, and delisted 1 model.

　　The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology stated that the next step is to strengthen special rectification, highlight the problems that the public has reported strongly, and severely investigate and deal with various violations of laws and regulations; the second is to further improve the personal information protection standard system; the third is to strengthen the construction of technical means; the fourth is to strengthen the industry Self-discipline.

At the same time, it will continue to promote the ageing transformation of Internet applications.

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