Xiaopeng Motors responded to the collection of 430,000 faces: a statement will be issued in the near future

IT Home December 14 news, recently, Shanghai Xiaopeng Automobile Sales Service Co., Ltd. was fined 100,000 yuan by Xuhui District Market Supervision and Administration Bureau. According to the notice, from January to June this year, Shanghai Xiaopeng Automobile Sales Service Co., Ltd. collected and uploaded a total of 431623 face photos. This act violates the Consumer Rights and Interests Protection Law without obtaining the consent of the consumer, nor does it explicitly or inform the consumer of the purpose of collection and use.

According to the auto channel of the financial network, the relevant person in charge of Xiaopeng Automobile said that Xiaopeng Automobile has paid attention to this matter and will issue a statement on this matter in the near future.

IT Home learned that the reason for the punishment was that the parties purchased 22 camera devices with face recognition functions and installed them in their stores, so as to count the number of people entering the store and analyze the proportion of men and women, age, etc., thereby infringing on the personal dignity of consumers, infringing on consumers' personal freedom or infringing on consumers' right to personal information to be protected according to law.

The chaos of face recognition has been exposed repeatedly this year, and the CCTV 315 evening party exposed the illegal collection of user face data by kohler sanitary ware, BMW, MaxMara stores and other companies.

In November this year, China's "Personal Information Protection Law" was officially implemented, which stipulates the collection, storage, and use of personal information, making it clear that no organization or individual may illegally collect, use, process, or transmit the personal information of others; the processing of personal information should obtain individual consent, the processing of sensitive personal information should obtain the individual's separate consent, and individuals should also be informed of the necessity of handling sensitive personal information and the impact on individual rights and interests.