Per reporter: Xie Jing Per editor: Lu Jiu'an
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I believe that you often encounter this situation: a strange phone call, when you hesitate to connect, the other party opened his mouth to use the "rocket-like" speed to sell you its "low interest, seconds to lend" "loan products", perhaps you will wonder, obviously you did not leave personal information to any "lending" company, why did you receive such harassing calls?
In fact, it may be because your personal information is "resold" to these companies as a "commodity".
Recently, the police in Huai'an, Jiangsu Province, reported that under the supervision of the Ministry of Public Security, they targeted "playing chains, platforms, and gangs" to crack down on 7 companies suspected of infringing on citizens' personal information, suspected of illegally caching more than 100 million pieces of citizens' personal information. Among these companies, some are cloaked in the cloak of technology companies, but in fact they are engaged in illegal activities such as "selling personal information", "online lending", and "collecting soft violence".
According to CCTV, in April 2018, when the police in Huai'an, Jiangsu Province, patrolled the Internet and found that after someone illegally purchased citizens' personal information, the suspect Gao took the initiative to surrender to the police. According to Gao's account, he spent 500 yuan to buy 317 pieces of citizens' personal information from people with the screen name "Past, Future", including mobile phone numbers, names, ID numbers and home addresses. He bought this information to make phone calls and solicit customers to online small loan companies. The police immediately locked down The suspect Shen Mou, whose online name was "Past, Future", and arrested him.
However, Shen is not the only criminal suspect in this incident to "supply" personal information, according to the police investigation, he also has an online line - Xie Mou.
The police seized more than 70,000 pieces of citizens' personal information in Shen's computer, including citizens' names, ID numbers, addresses, telephone numbers, and sesame credit scores, etc. Many of the information showed that the promotion sources were small loan platforms such as "spend money worry-free" and "borrow some money".
Subsequently, after meticulous investigation, the police once again found another criminal suspect who sold citizens' personal information to Shen through others. The police found that the criminal suspect was actually an employee of Guangzhou Nuohan Technology Company, and his trafficking in citizen information was not an individual act, and even the Guangzhou Nuohan Technology Company where he was located was not only selling citizens' personal information, but also carried out small loans and soft violence collection, which was a well-organized, clear division of labor, and a large number of people involved in the criminal gang. The criminal gang calls citizens' personal information "traffic", and has also developed a number of small loan platforms, while purchasing citizens' personal information for the purpose of selling loans and soft violence collection, it also exchanges citizens' personal information with other companies, and also develops software such as crawler cloud to crawl the personal information of citizens of other small loan companies through technical means for corporate lending and illegal sale for profit.
After careful deployment, on June 6, 2018, with the cooperation of the Guangdong police, the Huai'an police arrested all 45 people involved in the company in one fell swoop.
In addition, the police through shunten to find the melon, found that Guangzhou Nuohan Technology Company's citizen personal information mainly from Hunan Jiuxiang Information Co., Ltd., this company developed a black crawler website, through crawler software, illegally obtain dozens of small loan companies of citizen loans and overdue data, and then publicly provide fee inquiries, and provide "identity verification and return photos" business, after payment, anyone as long as the website enters the citizen's name and ID card number, you can query and obtain a citizen ID card photo.
After locking up relevant criminal evidence, the Huai'an police arrested the legal representative and technical supervisor of Hunan Jiuxiang Company in Changsha and Shenzhen respectively. The interrogation learned that the "identity verification and return photo" business port of the black crawler website of Jiuxiang Company came from Beijing Haige Technology Co., Ltd., and Haige Company purchased the query interface from four companies including Beijing Koala Credit Service Co., Ltd.
After investigation, Beijing Koala Credit Service Co., Ltd. obtained the interface from the upstream company and then sold the query interface in violation of the law, and illegally cached the personal identity information of the citizen for the downstream company to inquire and make profits, resulting in a large number of leakage of citizenship information, including ID card photos.
Subsequently, the police arrested more than 20 people involved in the case, including the legal representatives, chairman of the board, sales and technology of Beijing Haige Company and Beijing Koala Credit Reporting Service Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Beijing Koala Company), and arrested five people involved in their upstream companies in Beijing in April this year.
According to the police, since March 2015, Beijing Koala Company has illegally provided more than 98 million inquiries and returns, made more than 38 million yuan in profits, and seized and confiscated nearly 100 million citizens' names, ID numbers and photos that were illegally obtained and stored in the company's servers.
According to Qixinbao information, Beijing Koala Company was established in April 2014, and its business scope includes: enterprise credit collection, evaluation, enterprise management consulting, technology development, technical consulting, technical services, technology transfer, computer system services, etc.
The "Daily Economic News" reporter found that Beijing Koala Company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Koala Kunlun Credit Management Co., Ltd. (formerly known as Lakala Credit Management Co., Ltd.). According to Qixinbao information, There are 9 shareholders of Koala Kunlun Credit Management Co., Ltd., of which the major shareholder is: Lakala Payment Co., Ltd. (300773, hereinafter referred to as Lacala), with a shareholding ratio of 32.4%.
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Among the other shareholders, many have the background of A-share listed companies, such as Beijing Digital Knowledge Technology Co., Ltd. (former name: Meteno, 300038), Tolls Information Technology Co., Ltd. (300229), Beijing Rotary Pole Information Technology Co., Ltd. (300324), Beijing BlueFocus Data Technology Co., Ltd. (300058), etc.
Affected by this, Lakala plunged to a halt in the afternoon and closed at 49.29 yuan.
In the era of big data, citizens' personal privacy problems are easy to erupt, and the leakage of personal privacy often brings many troubles to personal lives. Zhang Jiachen, founder of Tree of Light Technology, told the "Daily Economic News" reporter that the root cause of such privacy leakage problems is that the standardized circulation of data has gradually entered the right track, and the state is increasing efforts to rectify the chaos of data acquisition and utilization.
Zhang Jiachen believes that many companies that have recently been investigated and punished for abusing user data have common behaviors: first, illegally obtain citizens' personal information, such as caching and reselling after crawling customer data by crawlers, caching and reselling is an illegal act beyond the scope of user authorization; secondly, the abuse of citizens' personal information, such as data being used for violent collection, fraud, harassment marketing, etc.
In Zhang Jiachen's view, preventing the leakage of personal information can be started from two aspects.
First of all, from the perspective of institutions, institutions can use multi-party secure computing as a technical means to ensure that citizens' personal information is not leaked and that data is not cached. For example, the combination of blockchain and data identification technology can ensure that data rights are confirmed and the traceability and auditability of the circulation process can be ensured, and the advantages of "who contributes and who benefits" in the era of digital economy can be fully utilized.
For ordinary users, individuals should strengthen their understanding of the rights of individuals involved in the use of data granted by relevant national laws and regulations, and when providing any electronic or written authorization, they need to carefully read and understand the scope of relevant authorization and the way to voluntarily withdraw, and should explicitly refuse the authorization of data beyond the necessary range, and immediately terminate the use and complain to the local government and regulatory authorities when they find that their rights have been infringed.
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