China Tells App Developers To Increase User Monitoring

An anonymous reader writes: The Cyberspace Administration of China has imposed new regulation for the mobile app community, requiring that developers keep a close watch over users and keep a record of their activities. However, the proposed legislation would also prevent apps from requesting unnecessary access to users' contacts, camera, microphone and other spurious installation requests. The regulator introduced the new laws in the name of cracking down on illegal use of mobile platforms for the distribution of pornography, fraud and the spread of 'malicious' content.

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[Opportunist]

Gotta compensate for something?

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[Opportunist]

*sigh*

I hate it when people confuse int with double.

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[Sique]

Just to put things in perspective: uint128_t is large enough to store the size of the Universe measured in Planck lengths.

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[Sique]

You are right. uint128_t gives us about 38 decimal places, which gives us about 1 km in Planck-lengths. The known Universe (46 billion lightyears) would need another 23 decimal places. But with 210 bits (~63 decimal places), we should be safe.

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[halivar]

This post was actually written in Standard Chinese, but due to Slashdot's lack of Unicode support and simple freak chance, it came out looking just like Portuguese instead.

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[ShanghaiBill]

Considering China's population problems and the shortage of women there, I'd think the government would want their citizens to get all the porn they want.

Porn is not completely banned in China, but there are restrictions. No erect penises, no exposes clitorises, etc. But if you just want some pics of naked chicks, you can find that easily.

China certainly isn't as weird about porn as Japan, where even mainstream newspapers and magazines have a few pages of nekkid chick pics, but pubic hair is banned, so the models shave it off. The result is that many boys/men look at these pictures, and think that is "normal", so Japanese women often shave off their publi

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[Dorianny]

I have never lived in Japan but from what I understand, the shaving of hair is closely associated with prostitution (genital crabs and all) which has largely been legal throughout Japanese history. The ban of it in nude pictures reinforces the idea that these are just lowly prostitutes and not respectable women. If you know one thing about Japan is how seriously they take Social Hierarchy

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[kheldan]

"We need to know immediately if anyone is criticizing the government so we can arrest them, and you will comply with this or we will arrest you and your family"

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[Anonymous Coward]

So basically what an NSL from the FBI does...?

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[Anonymous Coward]

You're dramatizing. If you can read chinese, you'd be amazed at how much criticizing and mockery the chinese netizens hurl at the government. The reality is you may get your post censored or deleted, but casual jabs at the government hardly raise any brows.

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[kheldan]

Yeah sure thing buddy. Meanwhile Chinese prisoners get their internal organs sold off, because the gorram Chinese value human life so much. Do you people not read the news?

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[kheldan]

I've spent nearly equal parts of my life in china and the west

Ah, I see now: You're an agent of the Chinese government, aren't you? Oh and by the way in the above comment I'm talking about the Chinese government, not her people, the vast majority of which want the same thing that people all over the world really want: to be left the fuck alone to live their lives in peace, and to find some sort of happiness. Of course when you have an oppressive authoritarian pseudo-communist criminal organization like that of the Chinese government, nobody can really do that now can

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[Lirodon]

You must spy on your users. Except when you're not.

In the Free West...

[lingu1st]

In the Free West, we don't need no stinking government and laws to mandate telemetry.

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[account_deleted]

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That's COMMUNISM!

[Opportunist]

Meanwhile, in the free west, this is handled by the free market.

And I may add I am confident that it can be done way more efficient, faster and cheaper, too!

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[wbr1]

It is not any more efficient. It is just that the parasites profiting (both in data [power] and in money), have a different organizational structure.

Yardstick

[ThatsNotPudding]

The regulator introduced the new laws in the name of cracking down on illegal use of mobile platforms for the distribution of pornography...

A good shorthand (ahem) measure of any government / religion / organization / cult / braying mobs' extremism is their absolute obsession with other peoples' sex lives.

old news

[campuscodi]

pretty late /. in the meantime the hacker has put up for sale another dataset of 9.3 million records