China News Service, Beijing, March 7th (Xie Yanbing) Protect children's personal information rights, file civil public interest lawsuits for minors, urge the elimination of hidden safety hazards in kindergartens, supervise food safety around campuses, and rectify Internet cafes for illegally admitting minors... The 35th batch of guiding cases released by China's Supreme People's Procuratorate on the 7th disclosed the above content.

  On the same day, the Supreme People's Procuratorate held a press conference to release for the first time five guiding cases with the theme of "Prosecutorial Public Interest Litigation for the Protection of Minors".

Na Yanfang, director of the Ninth Procuratorate of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, said that the Supreme People's Procuratorate identified the subject of the thirty-fifth batch of guiding cases as public interest litigation for the protection of minors. The second is to promote the standardized development of juvenile procuratorial public interest litigation work, and the third is to promote the formation of a good atmosphere for the protection of minors' public interest.

  One of them is a well-known short video APP infringing on the rights and interests of children's personal information.

  Chen Xiao, deputy director of the Ninth Procuratorate of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, said that in this case, a well-known short video application APP developed and operated by a company in Beijing was not informed in a conspicuous and clear way and obtained the explicit consent of the child's guardian. , allows children to register accounts, collect and store children's personal sensitive information, use background algorithms to directly push short videos containing children's personal information to users who have a preference for viewing children's content and videos, and does not take differentiated management measures for children's accounts.

The APP's illegal collection and processing of children's personal information has resulted in violation of the rights and interests of many children's personal information.

  Chen Xiao said that after the procuratorate found that the APP's information push had the risk of harming children, it filed a civil public interest lawsuit in accordance with the law, so that the company immediately stopped the infringement and carried out rectification. At the same time, it led Internet companies to improve industry rules.

  Another case involved tattoo treatment. The People's Procuratorate of Suqian City, Jiangsu Province filed a civil public interest lawsuit against Zhang for a minor's tattoo.

Zhang Mou, the operator of the tattoo parlor, has provided tattoo services to many minors and removed tattoos for minors without obtaining a medical beauty license.

  Na Yanfang pointed out that the procuratorial organs filed a public interest lawsuit against the provision of tattoo services to minors based on the principle of being most beneficial to minors.

"When the legal provisions are not clear and specific enough, and the interests of minors conflict with other interests, the special protection and priority protection of minors must be given top priority."

  It is understood that the "Regulations on the Protection and Crime Prevention of Minors in Hainan Province" and the "Regulations on the Protection of Minors in Shanghai" both prohibit the personal life of minors.

  In addition, in the administrative public interest litigation case released on the same day by the People's Procuratorate of Fuqing City, Fujian Province for urging the elimination of hidden safety hazards in kindergartens, the procuratorate properly placed more than 1,500 children in kindergartens and directly promoted the construction of inclusive kindergartens.

  It is reported that in 2021, 6,633 public interest litigation cases for the protection of minors will be filed by procuratorial organs across the country, 4.2 times that of 2020 and 3.3 times that of 2018 and 2019 combined.

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