China Calls out ByteDance, Kuaishou, and LinkedIn For Illegal Data Collection (scmp.com) 23
China's internet watchdog has named and shamed some of the country's most popular mobile applications, including the Chinese version of TikTok, Kuaishou, LinkedIn and 102 other apps, for the illegal collection and use of personal data. From a report: The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said that after receiving complaints from users, it had found that 105 apps had violated several laws and had infringed personal information through illegal access, over-collection and excessive authorisation, according to a notice on its WeChat official account. Short video apps including Kuaishou and ByteDance-owned TikTok were included in the list as well as Microsoft-owned LinkedIn and Bing, Tencent-owned music streaming service Kugou, and search giant Baidu's mobile browser.
I can understand why Bing is there... (Score:4, Informative)
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Google has been ignoring robots.txt for years as well. All the major search engines do because they want to index the web as the browser sees it.
It's mostly to defend against SEO. Things hidden by robots.txt won't be returned in search results but will be fetched by the crawler.
Re:I can understand why Bing is there... (Score:4, Insightful)
Pot met Kettle? (Score:5, Insightful)
Is this the government of China being ticked off because the apps/companies did not give copies of that personal data to it?
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Inquiring minds want to know.
This is a bit confusing considering the source.
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This is a bit confusing considering the source.
Quite right! I keep looking at the date, wondering if I missed April fools this year.
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Not really. Why is it surprising that China's government cares about its citizens?
Poor conditions and unrest are what lead to revolutions and democracy. Most Chinese people have experienced massive improvements in quality of life over the last few decades and consequently aren't interested in overthrowing the government.
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This. The ultimate goal of the most governments is self-preservation. For dictatorships, improving quality of life is very important so the people will turn a blind eye to the "other" things their government does. Also needed (and implemented) is an education system that focuses on nationalism, self-interests and downplay critical thinking.
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The SCMP certainly fell into line with CCP propaganda after the Chinese government took Jack Ma to the side for a few months of corrective education last year. They used to be more honest and independent.
Re: Pot met Kettle? (Score:1)
Oh please stop with the bs.
Re: Pot met Kettle? (Score:1)
No.
Why that comment is nodded "insightful" I have no idea. It's not even a statement, just a question.
It's just bigoted as is typical here.
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No. The government of China already have the information through co-ownership of data centres. They just want to be have the information exclusive to themselves.
How dare you! (Score:2)
How dare you do a fraction of what we do, and try to intrude on our data collection monopoly!
Re: How dare you! (Score:1)
... Said the USA and its government.
Civil rights theatre (Score:4, Insightful)
Re: Civil rights theatre (Score:2)
A very good start (Score:1)
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They already do... the USA being a prime offender.
That's rich (Score:1)
Re: That's rich (Score:1)
They define "legal" in China, so yeah...