Yesterday, the reporter learned from the Guangdong Provincial Department of public security that recently, according to the special action of "net 2019" of the Ministry of public security and the deployment of the special treatment action of the central network information office, the Ministry of industry and information technology, the Ministry of public security and the General Administration of market supervision on the illegal collection and use of personal information by app, the public security organs of Guangdong Province continued to clean up and rectify the app that collected user information beyond the scope in the second quarter of 2019, A total of 1048 apps were found to collect user information beyond the scope.
Among them, 42 apps such as' cool dog music ',' eLong Travel 'and' 100 Chinese points' have prominent security problems, such as reading user call records, SMS or MMS beyond the scope, collecting user address books, known accounts on user devices, and using user device microphones beyond the authority. At present, the relevant monitoring situation has been reported to the Ministry of public security to inform the local public security organs to carry out clean-up and rectification.
The relevant person in charge of the network police department of Guangdong Provincial Public Security Department said that the provincial public security organs will further carry out the special treatment action of "net 2019" and the illegal collection and use of personal information by app, strengthen monitoring, and strengthen the crackdown on the illegal and criminal activities of infringing on citizens' personal information, such as using app to collect user information beyond the scope and steal citizens' personal information.