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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.
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.
You're dramatizing. If you can read chinese, you'd be amazed at how much criticizing and mockery the chinese netizens hurl at the government. The reality is you may get your post censored or deleted, but casual jabs at the government hardly raise any brows.