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.

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Obvious translation:

[kheldan]

"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"