The Chinese authorities revealed more than hundreds of applications and services that carry the threat to the country’s personal data. The regulator has strengthened the pressure on the country’s largest developer and the owner of Tiktok – BYTEDANCE company, reports Associated Press.
Violations In collecting personal user data found in 102 Internet giant applications bytedance, as well as in the Kuaishou short video service and in Chinese Sogou and Baidu search engines. Douyin service, Microsoft Bing search engine, American social network LinkedIn, also hit the list of violators.
If the service developers are not responding to the regulator’s claims within 15 days, they are threatened with serious sanctions that can turn into a ban. New rules for collecting personal information of users entered into force in China on May 1.
Repressions regarding technological companies and Internet business in China by the Communist Party are particularly intensified in the past few months due to the conflict of the Alibaba owner Jack Ma with the Chinese authorities. The billionaire sharply criticized the state policy in the field of information technology. This was followed by a disruption of the IPO of the Alibaba subsidiary and the preparation of new measures of restrictions for the 13 largest companies in the country.