Chinanews.com, November 3, according to the WeChat official account of the “Industry WeChat News”, the Information and Communication Administration of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released on the 3rd "On the issue of APP exceeding the scope of requesting permissions, excessive collection of user personal information, etc." "Notice" stated that recently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has conducted inspections for violations such as users’ complaints about APP over-range, frequent requests for permissions, collection of user personal information that is not necessary for service scenarios, and deception and misleading users to download. A total of 38 apps have been found. There is a problem.
The report stated that since the beginning of this year, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has continued to increase its efforts to rectify APP infringement of users' rights and interests, and has organized three times to "look back" on key issues.
In the early stage, the problem of harassing users with APP's illegal calling of address book, location information and pop-up information was rectified.
Recently, a review was conducted for violations such as users’ strong app over-range, frequent requests for permissions, collection of user personal information that is not necessary for service scenarios, and deception and misleading users to download. A total of 38 apps were found to have problems.
The above-mentioned APP should be rectified before November 9. If the rectification is not completed within the time limit or the rectification is not in place, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will deal with it in accordance with laws and regulations and impose administrative penalties.
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