Chutian Metropolis Daily, July 3 (reporter Yao Gang) On July 3, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology notified the second batch of APPS that infringed on the rights and interests of users in 2020.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said that in accordance with the Cybersecurity Law, the Telecommunications Regulations, the Provisions on the Protection of Personal Information of Telecommunications and Internet Users and other laws and regulations, a third-party testing agency has recently been organized to inspect mobile phone application software and supervise and rectify enterprises that have found problems. As of now, there are still 15 apps that have not completed rectification.
The reporter saw that the "Wisdom Tree", "Nano Box", "Lexue College Entrance Examination", "Lejiao Lexue", "After having a car" and other APP are all reported to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, involving problems including excessive permission, private collection of personal information, forcing users to use the targeted push function, not giving permission not to use, private sharing to third parties, etc.
In this briefing, "Wisdom Tree" was developed for Beijing Huanyu Wanwei Technology Co., Ltd. The reporter consulted the official website of wisdom tree and learned that the wisdom tree preschool education cloud platform takes kindergarten principals, teachers and parents as the main service objects, and has been widely used in 120,000 kindergartens nationwide, with a total user volume of 30 million people and 11 million monthly online active users.
Why does a Wisdom Tree need to ask for unnecessary permissions? Has a new version been released to fix this issue? On this issue, on the afternoon of July 3, the reporter contacted according to the telephone number retained on the official website of the Wisdom Tree, and the customer service staff provided the corresponding department phone number, and the reporter called many times without answering.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology requires that the above-mentioned APP should complete the rectification and implementation work before July 14, and if the rectification is not carried out within the time limit, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will organize and carry out relevant disposal work in accordance with laws and regulations.