Whiplash April 27 news, according to media reports, Douban updated the personal information protection policy. The new policy stipulates that users need to register with a real name system, and they need to provide real names, ID card numbers, and face information. In addition, if a resident of Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan registers as a Douban user, he or she needs to hold a valid identity document information such as the Mainland Travel Permit for Taiwan Residents and the Mainland Travel Permit for Hong Kong and Macao Residents, as well as a photo of the person holding the certificate.
Douban's move means that the era of encouraging "private groups" has passed. Douban has repeatedly been required to rectify information that laws and regulations prohibit the release or transmission of.
According to the Cyberspace Administration of China, on December 1, 2021, the person in charge of the State Internet Information Office interviewed the main responsible person and editor-in-chief of Douban. The Beijing Municipal Internet Information Office imposed an administrative penalty of a total fine of 1.5 million yuan on Beijing Douwang Technology Co., Ltd., the operator of Douban. From January to November 2021, the State Internet Information Office guided the Beijing Municipal Internet Information Office to impose 20 disposal penalties on Douban, and repeatedly imposed a fine of 500,000 yuan, with a total of 9 million yuan in fines.
In addition, the enterprise inspection APP shows that Beijing Douwang Technology Co., Ltd. has been notified by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology for many times due to problems such as over-range collection of personal information, illegal access to the address book and geographical location permissions, and on December 9, 2021, Douban was removed from the shelves by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
Later, on March 15, 2022, the State Internet Information Office instructed the Beijing Municipal Internet Information Office to send a work supervision team to Douban to supervise rectification.
In this regard, Douban has announced the dissolution of a number of problem groups and the deactivation of multiple problem groups, including the Douban Goose group.
Douban is a community website, founded on March 6, 2005, starting with books, videos and audio, providing information about books, movies, music and other works. Douban also provides a variety of service functions such as book video recommendation, offline activities in the same city, and group topic exchanges. According to the investigation, Douban has carried out a total of 5 rounds of financing since its establishment, and its most recent financing was in August 2021, and it obtained about 10 million US dollars of strategic financing from Trusttrust Capital and Ceyuan Venture Capital.
