The Chinese government has announced that it has fined about 160 billion yen in Japanese yen for illegally collecting personal information for the largest domestic vehicle dispatch service, "Drip."

It seems to be part of a tightening on the growing influential IT companies.

On the 21st, the Chinese government announced that it had fined more than RMB 8 billion and about 160 billion yen in Japanese yen for violating the Personal Information Protection Law.



It is said that it collected more information such as passenger face recognition data, occupation, and address than necessary.



He also points out that the company's illegal activities regarding the processing of data pose a significant risk to national security.



Drops went public in the United States last June, but shortly afterwards, the Chinese government began reviewing it for national security reasons and stopped downloading the app.



It was a blow to management, and in the last year's financial results, the final deficit was about 1 trillion yen in Japanese yen, and the listing in the United States was abolished in an unusually short period of time in response to the company's application last month. rice field.



A series of Chinese government responses appear to be part of a warning that the company's data will be leaked to the United States and a tightening on the growing influential giant IT companies.



However, the Chinese government has recently shown a stance to break this tightening, and the future response to IT companies is the focus.