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China Tells App Developers To Increase User Monitoring
An anonymous reader writes: The Cyberspace Administration of China has imposed new regulation for the mobile app community, requiring that developers keep a close watch over users and keep a record of their activities. However, the proposed legislation would also prevent apps from requesting unnecessary access to users' contacts, camera, microphone and other spurious installation requests. The regulator introduced the new laws in the name of cracking down on illegal use of mobile platforms for the distribution of pornography, fraud and the spread of 'malicious' content.
Am I understanding this correctly? So if I want to use apps on my phone, I will be REQUIRED to let it scan my penis? Isn't that kind of invasive? Like now I can typically opt out of those scans.
A small number of apps have been exploited by criminal types to spread violence and terrorism, pornographic material, rumours and other illegal information,’ said the regulator.
Considering China's population problems and the shortage of women there, I'd think the government would want their citizens to get all the porn they want.
"We need to know immediately if anyone is criticizing the government so we can arrest them, and you will comply with this or we will arrest you and your family"
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
Are there any numbers on the success rate? The damn news is always so one sided! Posting government statements is of no use to us. Where are the stories from the other end that is trying to get around the blockages? What is their success rate? Help us find out how to make censorship as difficult as possible! Let CNN and FOX be the government's paperboy.
Big-endian
You must spy on your users. Except when you're not.
In the Free West, we don't need no stinking government and laws to mandate telemetry.
Gotta compensate for something?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Meanwhile, in the free west, this is handled by the free market.
And I may add I am confident that it can be done way more efficient, faster and cheaper, too!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Global edition this time. If the West were any better, sanctions would be imposed. Alas, China would immediately point out the hypocrisy, and be right.
It's funny how people attack China and Russia (when a similar story was run last week). However, let's not forget who was first with this sort of spying - the European Union with their 2006 Data Retention Directive. Under this directive ISPs and phone companies were required to retain details of all calls, emails and websites visited for a period of 6-24 months and to allow pretty much any department of the government to access this data (even the post office had access):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive
What we saw from Russia, and what we see from China here, is pretty much the same thing ten years later. When the EU very publicly passed this directive, nobody seemed to care, but when Russia or China do the same thing the average Slashdot comment is, "lulz, the Chinese/Russians are so evil with their state spying".
Why do Slashdot users pour scorn on the Chinese/Russian governments but celebrate the EU as the bastion of freedom and democracy? It appears rather hypocritical to me that you praise one institution while condemning another, when they're both doing the same thing.
A good shorthand (ahem) measure of any government / religion / organization / cult / braying mobs' extremism is their absolute obsession with other peoples' sex lives.
-- Facebook, probably
The translation is spy on people but don't do anything that might tip them off that you may be doing so.
This post was actually written in Standard Chinese, but due to Slashdot's lack of Unicode support and simple freak chance, it came out looking just like Portuguese instead.
pretty late /.
in the meantime the hacker has put up for sale another dataset of 9.3 million records
yeah, like the big G is not doing any
Fuck China.
That already does that for you. Now Visual Studio injects telemetry code for you at compile time (Which is true) so you don't have to!