China cracks down on ‘excessive’ user data harvesting, gives 33 apps ten days to clean up their acts China says it has identified 33 apps that illegally collect information not necessary to their services, and has given their operators ten days to perform “rectification”. The apps – including some from Chinese web giants Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent – were told of the deadline in a May 1st announcement from the Cyberspace …
It sounds like a good step, although it undoubtedly doesn't apply to the Chinese government's collection of data.
Then again, if the American government would introduce a similar regulation I'd appreciate it, even though it wouldn't apply to our own government Agencies.
Something is better than nothing.
I think you mean "¥€$"
If the companies are "transparent" as the Chinese government would like, then all data is aggregated on the government's behalf, without any withholding. Or maybe it could be called data hoarding.
No, all of this data is sold on for advertising, in the vain belief that more data means more sales.
Odd how China is again putting their people's protection first when the West uses divide and conquer to keep the rich free to abuse those below them.
Perhaps once China has bought up all the failure that is western capitolism then there can be a return to the path of equality.
Certainly all I see in the UK is disunity, growing hatred of our peers and the desperate stamping of the fingers of those who have contributed to the common good for years but are now seen as an expensive burden that needs to be culled.
"Odd how China is again putting their people's protection first when the West uses divide and conquer..."
Yeah, China doesn't divide and conquer - it shoves all dissenters into a concentration camp.
Sorry, detention camp. Er, re-education centre. Actually, now I've double-checked its a rape centre.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-55794071
@a/cYeah, China doesn't divide and conquer - it shoves all dissenters into a concentration camp.
Sorry, detention camp. Er, re-education centre. Actually, now I've double-checked its a rape centre.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-55794071
As opposed to for profit rape centres called prisons?
Extraordinary rendition
Guantanamo Bay detention camp
There is good and bad in ALL governments
Some are worst than others.
Democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
China's government killed and continues to kill a whole part of its own population: the Great Leap Forward (between 23 to 55 millions deaths), the Cultural Revolution (20 millions deaths), persecution of uygurs....
There's no Laogai in western democracies.
That's not the Han Clan in the prison camps.
The point is that the CCP is using their power to prevent the biggest companies from monopolizing the economy and stunting growth. The CCP is doing more to enforce a level capitalist playing field in their domestic internet economy than the US govt can do in it's own.
Nobody is saying the CCP are doing it out of altruism. They are doing it to protect their own power - and to make their economy more dynamic, which also enhances their power.
That should be a wake up call.
Christ... if America did this, and MEANT it (i.e. no loopholes for big corporations) then I might have a heart attack.
If America did it in TEN DAYS then I'd know for sure someone's pulling my leg. Congress couldn't do something in 10 days if their collective lives depended on it.
Double kudos to China.
The 10 days line is marketing. No way in hell they would drop such a hammer on their flagship tech companies. You can rest assured all companies were not only notified ahead of time, but that they had a working replacement in place and ready to roll out by the time the announcement was made public.
That said, I too want :(
It's the pot calling the kettle black.
Just as the Chinese Communist Party doesn't want any religions or other organizations (e.g. unions) that are not under it's control & might become platforms for opposition to it's grip on power, it doesn't want any data collecting organizations to know more than it does.
Government slurping is always there, no matter where you live. All governments strive for better internal surveillance and better external intelligence. It's like second law of thermodynamics: just like the entropy ever grows, any given government tries to reach as much totalitarian mode of operation as possible.
You can buy Wifi-controlled LED colour floodlights on Amazon, and I bought a couple - which went back about 30 minutes after I bought them and powered them up for test.
The problems:
1 - they're exclusively controlled via an account you have to make on some server. In other words, server closes, lights become useless as there's no local control, and that's aside from any control and disclosure issues;
2 - according to iOS, the app you need to use for controlling them wants access to:
- Location
- User content
- Health & Fitness data
- Contact Info
- Identifies
- Diagnostics
Apart from all the other things it has no rational reason to access, what business does a floodlight have with my health?!?
Unbelievable.
I have left out the product link to protect El Reg from lawyers, but it's available if anyone wants it for research or a juicy article.
And if it did, El Zuck had better not respond to any convocation to explain himself.
Contrary to US Congress, which he has brushed off and ignored more than once, I doubt China would be so accepting of his lies and would probably lock him up until changes were made.
One can always dream.
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