August 19, the official public number of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released a message saying that because of the failure to complete the rectification in accordance with the provisions of the eight APP, including VISTA watch the world, the big horned bug comics, etc., to be taken off the shelves. The reporter browsed in a number of application stores and found that the search has not been able to find these eight APP.
It is understood that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in July 24, 2020 to the community informed the existence of 58 infringement of the rights and interests of the users of the APP enterprise list, and asked these APP in July 30 before completing the rectification.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said that, up to now, by the third-party testing organizations to verify the re-inspection, there are still 8 APP has not completed the rectification as required. According to the Network Security Law and the Interim Provisions on the Management of Application Software Presetting and Distribution for Mobile Intelligent Terminals (Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Information Management [2016] No. 407) and other legal and normative documents, the organization will take down the above APPs.
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Classification of APP infringement of user rights and interests:
The MIIT has notified five batches of the list of infringing APPs in one *** since December 2019, and the MIIT has classified the issues involved in APP infringement of user rights and interests into eight major categories Including:
Forcing users to use targeted push functions, not letting them use it without giving permission, making it difficult to log out of the account, collecting personal information privately, enjoying it privately*** to a third party, asking for permission excessively, collecting personal information in excess of the scope, and applying for permission frequently. Among them, the private collection of personal information is the problem that appears most often.
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