Register user's real name with application and preserve behavior history for the last 2 months obliged in China

ByVernon Chan

In China, a net censor system for blocking information inconvenient to the governmentGreat firewallMany regulations are laid out so that there is " In May 2016Live streaming eating bananas sexyly banned in ChinaIt was revealed that the Chinese government is aiming to register the mobile number and real name when using the application, although the topic was called up being made.

Real-Name Registration Now Required for App Users in China
http://english.cri.cn/12394/2016/06/28/3821s932321.htm


China is cracking down on mobile apps that peddle porn, violence and terrorism
http://www.neowin.net/news/china-is-cracking-down-on-mobile-apps-that-peddle-porn-violence-and-terrorism

Supervise Chinese censorship of Chinese governmentCyberspace Administration of China(CAC) strictly restrict the application distributor (both the application developer and the app store administrator) as a measure against mobile applications including content such as violence, terrorism, pornography and fraud It revealed.

In the future, if you want to distribute applications that operate in China, application distributors must comply with the following six regulations.

1:Confirm the identity of the user by inputting mobile phone number, real name, other personal information.
2:Protect user information and not use those information without user's consent.
3:Application distributors should strengthen censorship and take measures such as closing warnings, services, closing accounts, etc. for users who publish prohibited information.
Four:The application distributor notifies the user about "user's right" and does not confidentially confirm the user's location information and contact information.
Five:Acts that violate copyrights of competing products by application distributors are prohibited.
6:The application distributor should record the user's action history and keep it for at least 60 days.

According to CAC, there are things that are used to spread violence, terrorism, pornography, rumors, etc, among others, and some kind of deceiving money by infringing the user's privacy. For this reason, we explained that we decided to strengthen regulations based on field survey and public opinion, "aiming for inappropriate application regulation and healthy industrial development".

ByBfishadow

Under the new regulations, the application store side mandates "to monitor the application". As a result, the application store will check the validity of the developer more strictly, it will become more important to the user information and the intellectual property, and the international store news siteNeowin.

As of the end of 2015, the estimated number of mobile Internet users in China is estimated at about 619 million, which is equivalent to 90% of the Internet traffic in China. Also, even in the app store from China, the application of more than 4 million applications has already been delivered, and it seems that the rapid increase in the number has led to this regulation.

New regulations by CAC will come into force on August 1, 2016.