Beijing bashes Bing and lashes LinkedIn over improper data collection and storage

After receiving complaints from users, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has ordered 105 apps to stop improperly collecting and using people's personal data. Among the listed 105 apps are Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, TikTok itself, Chinese video-sharing app Kuaishou, music streaming service Kugou, plus …

[Shadow Systems]

Hit them! Hit them hard! =-D

Repeatedly. Enthusiasticly. With gusto! I volunteer to do speed metal drum solos on their heads! =-D

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Hit them! Hit them hard! =-D

Sounds like good fun. I'll volunteer to smash guitars into their kneecaps and maybe we can find some more cowbell to stick where the sun don't shine.

[Giles C]

So if they are forced to limit data collection in China, what are the chances they will adopt the same policy worldwide?

I am not holding my breath though.

[Anonymous Coward]

Vote for the CCP stooge in your local election, and with a bit of luck, they'll have to!

(https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/122094310/jian-yang-the-national-mp-who-admitted-to-training-chinese-spies-retiring)

[Ashto5]

V Scary

First it was the Americans putting demands on other countries to follow its own rules

Now we have China doing the same

And American IT rollover like puppies

They chase the dollar and the yen and don’t care who gets hurt along the way

Americans chasing the dollar never saw the rise of China and now as they slip into subservience to China laws they go blindly still chasing the dollar

And so goes liberty ...

[JDPower666]

Re: V Scary

So stopping multimillion pound companies from scooping up citizen's personal details is a LOSS of liberty?

[Jason Hindle]

Re: V Scary

"So stopping multimillion pound companies from scooping up citizen's personal details is a LOSS of liberty?"

Something I've ruminated* over quite a bit, of late. It is in point of fact a perfectly healthy LOSS of liberty. For the companies in question 8-D.

[and I]

Re: V Scary

If they're chasing the $ and the ¥ then China is not the place to be... The currency of the PRC is the RMB or Yuan, not the Yen, that's Japan.

[beep54]

Wait

Bing and Linkedin are still being used by some? For some reason? I think China might have the right idea here.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Wait

Linkedin *claim* 30m members in the UK

Erm... UK population of around 70m, less kids and crusties, so that's just about every single possible worker and job-seeker signed up... except you and me

(their 'stats' are weird... either that or they believe every thing their members tell them... CEO, yup... £1bn a year, yup)

[Paul Crawford]

I feel dirty for liking something the otherwise-appalling Chinese government is doing.

[MacroRodent]

They don't want competitors

The Chinese governement just wants to make sure it is the only one collecting information on the Chinese.

[Anonymous Coward]

Remember when Azure AD was sending details of who worked with whom to Facebook? Good times.