43 apps have been notified by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology that they have violated regulations and rectified incompletely, and will be banned by legislation.
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After searching for a product online, you will always receive similar advertisements or information pushes...In the Internet age, how to protect personal information is the focus of attention.
On August 18, the official website of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology pointed out that 43 apps had problems such as illegally calling address books, location information, and opening screen pop-ups to harass users.
Not only will relevant departments speed up rectification, but soon, personal information on the Internet will be further maintained.
According to Xinhua News Agency, the draft personal information protection law (hereinafter referred to as the draft) was submitted to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress for the third review on the 17th.
Compared with the previous second review of the draft, the third review of the draft further improves the personal information processing rules, and makes targeted regulations for apps that are concerned by the outside world for excessive collection of personal information, big data cracking, illegal trading, and disclosure of personal information. The personal information of minors under the age of fourteen shall be specially protected.
Experts believe that the draft personal information protection law can further safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the people in cyberspace and promote the rational use of personal information.
Wen Jing, All Media Correspondent, Guangzhou Daily
43 illegal apps involve many well-known Internet platforms
On August 18, the official website of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology stated that recently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology organized a "look back" in response to three prominent issues that users reported strongly about app violations, invoking the address book, location information, and harassing users with open pop-ups, and found a total of 43 There are still problems with incomplete rectification, technical means confrontation, and inconsistent rectification of the same problem in different regions.
The above 43 apps include Sohu Video, Tencent Maps, WeChat, Phoenix News, iQiyi, Vipshop, Sogou Maps, First Contract Car, YTO Express, Renren Car Used Car, Uxin Used Car, Douban FM, WeChat Commonly used apps such as blog wallet.
Among them, Ctrip Travel, Tencent Video, WeChat, Enterprise WeChat, Suning Tesco, Suning Xiaodian, iQiyi, Qunar, etc. have illegal access to address book and geographic location permissions; Sohu video, scan Wang Quannengbao, understand ball Die, Quick Read, TouchPal Phone, etc. are related to open-screen pop-up messages harassing users.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology stated that the above-mentioned APP should be rectified before August 25. If the rectification is not completed within the time limit or the rectification is not in place, it will be dealt with in accordance with laws and regulations.
Personal information protection law will legislate "big data to kill" is expected to be eradicated
In recent years, online retail, travel, food delivery, taxi-hailing and other platforms have been criticized for "big data to kill familiarity".
Zang Tiewei, spokesperson for the Legal Work Committee of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, said that at present, all aspects of society are highly concerned about new technologies and new applications such as user portraits and algorithm recommendations, and are concerned about information harassment in related products and services, "big data" and other issues. The reflection is strong.
The draft personal information protection law is based on safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of the broad masses of people in cyberspace, and makes targeted norms for the use of personal information for automated decision-making.
The third draft of the draft stipulates that the use of personal information for automated decision-making shall not impose unreasonable differential treatment on individuals in terms of transaction conditions such as transaction prices.
Industry observers pointed out that in order to fundamentally solve the endless variety of "big data killing" behaviors, legislative prohibition is the real cure for the root cause.
In the future, such behaviors are expected to be cured.
On the other hand, some platforms use big data to push personalized advertisements on user portraits, which also plagues the daily life of the public.
It is reported that the third review of the draft clarified that personal information processors who use automated decision-making methods to push information and commercial marketing to individuals should also provide options that are not specific to their personal characteristics, or provide individuals with a way to refuse.
When making decisions that have a significant impact on personal rights and interests through automated decision-making methods, individuals have the right to request explanations and have the right to refuse to make decisions only through automated decision-making methods.
"Choose one between two" and online false propaganda face stricter supervision
It is worth noting that, also on the 17th, the State Administration for Market Regulation issued the "Provisions on Prohibition of Unfair Competition on the Internet (Draft for Public Comment)" (hereinafter referred to as the Draft for Comment) and solicited public opinions.
Unfair competition behaviors in the network field such as "choose one of two", data "familiarization", network false propaganda, and false transactions will face stricter and more detailed supervision.
Affected by news, market performance fluctuates.
As of the close on the 17th, Hong Kong stocks' e-commerce and Internet services continued to fall. Among them, Baidu fell 5.45%, Tencent Holdings, JD, Alibaba fell more than 4%, and Meituan fell 3.52%.
On August 18, as of the close of Hong Kong stocks, JD.com, Meituan, Tencent Holdings, Baidu, etc. all rose, while Alibaba fell 0.12%.
The draft for soliciting opinions clarifies that operators shall not make false or misleading commercial publicity on the sales status, transaction information, operating data, user evaluations of the operators themselves or their products, and deceive or mislead consumers or the relevant public.
Among them, interactive behaviors such as cash back, red envelopes, card coupons, etc. that are sufficient to induce users to make designated evaluations, likes, forwarding, and targeted voting are also listed as prohibited behaviors.
In addition, the draft mentions that operators shall not intercept or block information content and pages of specific information service providers, except for frequently pop-up information that interferes with users, and floating, windows and other information that do not provide closing methods.
Internet industry insiders told reporters that national legislation to protect personal information and data is a great benefit to consumers.
As an Internet platform, I believe that laws and regulations will treat enterprises reasonably.
"There are laws to follow, but I don't worry too much," said the above-mentioned industry insiders.
In recent years, attention to anti-monopoly has continued to increase, and the State Administration of Market Supervision has issued anti-monopoly fines many times.
Platforms such as "choose one of the two" and "data kill" have become invisible.
In February of this year, the State Administration for Market Supervision published the "Anti-Monopoly Guidelines of the Anti-Monopoly Commission of the State Council on Platform Economy", which further refined the judgment of whether “choose one” and other behaviors constituted from the perspectives of punitive measures and incentive measures. Limit the standards for transactions, and clarify the factors that can be considered to constitute differential treatment, including the implementation of differential transaction prices or other factors based on big data and algorithms in the field of platform economy, according to the payment ability, consumption preferences, and usage habits of the counterparty of the transaction. transaction terms.