China’s Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission has named 84 apps it says breach local privacy laws and given their developers 15 days to “rectify” their code.
The Commission has posted two lists of apps it says need fixing, fast.
The first names 36 apps that breach user security by gathering and/or sharing more data than they need or doing so without users’ consent. Top of the list is web giant Tencent’s “mobile phone manager”, accused of harvesting and sharing more data than it needs. Most of the other apps on the first list share similar problems.
The second list, of 48 apps, covers online lending apps. Beijing is keen to crack down on such services at it fears peer-to-peer lending has the potential to damage China’s financial system.
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