On December 21, according to chinanews.com, at the third press conference held by the legal working committee of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, Yue Zhongming, spokesman of the legal working committee of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, said that China will formulate a personal information protection law and a data security law next year.
In January this year, the central network information office, the Ministry of industry and information technology, the Ministry of public security and the General Administration of Market Supervision issued the announcement on carrying out the special treatment of illegal collection and use of personal information by app, and decided to organize the special treatment of illegal collection and use of personal information by app nationwide from January to December 2019.
The main matters include: app operators do not collect personal information unrelated to the services provided; Do not force the user to authorize by default, binding, stopping installation and use, and do not collect and use personal information in violation of laws and regulations and the agreement with the user. Advocate that app operators provide users with the option to refuse to receive directional push when directional push news, current politics and advertising.
On December 19, the website of the Ministry of industry and information technology reported that, according to the requirements of the notice of the Ministry of industry and information technology on carrying out the special rectification of APP infringement on users' rights and interests, the Ministry of industry and information technology steadily promoted the special rectification action of APP infringement on users' rights and interests according to the plan, stages and stages. In the self inspection and self correction stage, more than 8000 apps have been rectified. In the supervision and inspection stage, the Ministry of industry and information technology organized third-party testing institutions to inspect the apps of major app stores, and supervised and rectified more than 100 enterprises that found problems.
Up to now, there are still 41 apps that have problems such as illegal collection, use of user personal information, unreasonable request for user rights, and setting obstacles for user account cancellation, and rectification has not been completed. According to the list disclosed by the Ministry of industry and information technology, the first batch of problematic applications include QQ, QQ reading, sina sports, Xiaomi finance, flash delivery, xuebajun 1-to-1, Renren video, tentacle live broadcast, daily Youxian, zhenai.com, etc.