China Orders App Stores To Join Register (bbc.com)

China's internet regulator has ordered mobile app stores to register themselves with it immediately. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said the move would help "promote the healthy and orderly development of the mobile internet." From a report on BBC: Most smartphones in the country run Android, but Google does not operate its Play Store locally, meaning users go elsewhere to add software. A report last year linked this to the spread of malware. Cheetah Mobile Security -- a Beijing-based firm -- reported that more than 1.4 million Chinese users' mobile devices had been struck by infections as of January 2016, making it the worst afflicted nation. India and Indonesia were in second and third place. This follows previous efforts to censor what appears online, including a recent demand that Apple remove the New York Times from the Chinese version of its iOS App Store. The US newspaper was the first to report the watchdog's move outside of China itself. Because of the Play store's absence, Android users in China typically go to stores operated by local tech giants including Tencent, Xiaomi, Baidu and Huawei.

Comments

Registry

[Anonymous Coward]

The word is 'registry'; you register with a registry.

Re:Registry

[Anonymous Coward]

Part of me thinks that 'Register' works fine also, because a 'Register' can be a physical thing(noun) too... "cash register" in stores for example.

Mind you... I'm just guessing here and could be wrong, but it at least 'makes sense'(which means it is probably wrong in English)

who would have thought?

[Anonymous Coward]

Who would have thought that 3 of the biggest countries would have the largest number of phones, and the largest number of infections.

try again tryhard.

[Anonymous Coward]

It would be, if there was a registry. But there isn't, just a regulator. Try again after reading at least the summary.

Re:try again tryhard.

[goombah99]

So the word they were looking for was Registrar.

Re:try again tryhard.

[Anonymous Coward]

No thats even more wrong than before.

Registers you

[Tokolosh]

Ah yes, but at least the Chinese do not have to register their drones.

call me Tim Cook will do but he will not help the

[Anonymous Coward]

Take me to publicly burn from Apple equipment to put him is this place

To what end?

[freeze128]

What would registering do? I don't see how writing your business' name on a sheet of paper helps to prevent malware from being installed.

Re:To what end?

[Anonymous Coward]

Have someone to ban if you serve too much malware. Or someone to fine or jail.

Re:To what end?

[Somebody Is Using My]

Especially since the source of most of these infections are - third-party app "stores" which offer pirated versions of software found on the official repositories - are not likely to obey the law about registering either.

This has nothing to do with stopping malware. This has everything to do with the Chinese government controlling the flow of information to their people from Western countries and companies.

Re: To what end?

[mmell]

So that when the Premier decides he doesn't like your font or your color scheme, they know who to send for reeducation.

China orders app stores to register

[goombah99]

OR just the infinitive . "To Register". China orders app stores to register

China wants to prevent another revolution

[presidenteloco]

Since the fast-movers with ties to government have already captured the formerly-state-run wealth and have turned China into an oligarchy of Mercedes and Tesla drivers, the last thing they want is the peasants chatting together on unregulated apps and starting something like a bottom-up communist revolution.

Re:China wants to prevent another revolution

[Anonymous Coward]

So the same reason America tightly controls its media.

Spyware

[Rick Schumann]

promote the healthy and orderly development of the mobile internet

More likely they want to inject their spyware into all apps so they can maintain 100% surveillance and control of their citizens at all times.

USA UK etc

[Anonymous Coward]

Remind us again which countries are trying to ban encryption and want a backdoor into any crypto algorithms...

Re:USA UK etc

[Rick Schumann]

It's taking having experts repeat themselves over and over again, but our technologically uneducated politicians are starting to get the idea that the 'backdoors' they want in encryption will benefit criminals more than it will benefit law enforcement, so how about you Anonymous Coward jackasses stop with your all-or-nothing statements implying that the entire 300,000,000 people in the U.S. and however many in the UK all want 'backdoors' in their encryption, and target your statements where they belong, i.e. the aforementioned politicians who just don't understand what they're asking for just isn't possible?

Re:USA UK etc

[Anonymous Coward]

Much better to have Microsoft, Google and Apple do all the spyware and surveillance from the OS directly...Like good capitalists, not like those nasty Commies. Right?
Haven't you heard, the UK have had enough of experts... and the US elected Trump...

Re:USA UK etc

[Anonymous Coward]

Ah, shove it up your ass, faggot AC. You've got the governments and Micro$ofts' dick up your ass 24/7/365 like most people do, you're impotently angry about it, so in your powerlessness you take it out on everyone around you with your AC shitposting, like the worthless cuck you are. Now, go be a good little cuck and swallow Nadella's jizz like he told you to do, or he'll take your solitaire game away from you again.

App Stores can join The Register

[somekind]

here