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Large numbers of Chinese mobile apps continue to threaten users’ security by illegally using their personal information, reading files on their devices, and probing other downloaded apps, according to a published Tuesday by one of the country’s most influential nongovernmental cybersecurity bodies.The report, which was released by the National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center of China (CNCERT/CC), reviews China’s online security landscape over the first half of 2019. Published amid an ongoing public outcry over the misuse of personal information, it illustrates the vast scale of the country’s data privacy problem.Many apps harvest personal information either by forcing users to provide access to their data in order to use the app, or by nudging users toward giving access to data unrelated to the apps’ core operations, according to the report. An example of the latter strategy would be when a food delivery app asks by default for access to your photos and videos while seeking permission to use your location.CNCERT/CC analysis of more than 1,000 of the country’s most-downloaded apps found that each one requests an average of 25 permissions and that more than 30% demand access to call logs despite that data being unrelated to their operations.
On average, the apps collected an average of 20 data items relating to individuals or their devices, including chat logs, geographic locations, and audiovisual content, the report said.Additionally, the widespread adoption of mobile internet and inclusive finance in China over the last several years has led to the emergence of online fraud techniques that use mobile clients to access individuals’ personal information and bank accounts, the report said.The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) is currently a yearlong crackdown that aims to root out illegal and nonconsensual data collection. Earlier this month, a CAC-affiliated body published a that would standardize digital data collection and require app-makers to allow access to their products as long as users provide the minimum possible amount of personal data and permissions for the apps to function.Contact reporter Matthew Walsh ([email protected]). The World Trade Organization (WTO) has established a dispute panel to resolve a row over U.S.
Safeguard duties on imports of Chinese solar cells, Reuters Thursday.China claims that the United States is violating WTO rules by imposing a tariff-rate quota on imports of Chinese solar cells and increased duties on imported solar modules. The panel was set up automatically after China requested it for a second time at a meeting of the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Body, according to Reuters.The decision came as the world’s two largest economies seek to ease long-running trade tensions that continue to cast a shadow over the solar industry. In January last year, the Trump administration imposed 30% “safeguard tariffs” on solar panels produced outside the United States, ostensibly to push a domestic solar industry heavily reliant on cheap imports toward buying more U.S.-made panels.Washington then specifically targeted China in August last year, charging additional duties of 25% on Chinese solar cells and panels. The move was widely seen as an expression of broader U.S. Complaints that China unfairly uses subsidies and bulk manufacturing to outcompete American companies in a number of industries, an accusation that China denies.At the time, China’s commerce ministry the U.S.’s extra measures harmed Beijing’s interests and distorted the global renewables market. China later an initial complaint with the WTO.So far, the effectiveness of U.S.
Solar tariffs remains unclear. Some experts have claimed that they to thousands of job losses in the American solar industry last year, while others say they have had little effect on Chinese solar companies that to avoid previous U.S.-China trade disputes.Contact reporter Matthew Walsh ([email protected])Related. The Shanghai government is losing patience in regulating ride-hailing services, and warned operators that their apps could be taken down if they fail further inspections.Ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing and lifestyle platform Meituan Dianping were fined 5.5 million yuan ($783,353) and 1.47 million yuan, respectively, for operating vehicles failing to meet regulations in a July inspection. However, in later inspections, they were still arranging rides for unqualified vehicles and drivers, the Shanghai Municipal Transportation Commission said on its Tuesday.Each day between Saturday and Monday around 82% of 15,000 unqualified ride-hailing vehicles were operated by Didi, and over 15% by Meituan, according to the Commission.
The two companies have to yet to comment on the issue.The Commission said if the platforms refuse to suspend related services or fail to meet requirements, it would work with other agencies to implement harsher punishments, including removing their ride-hailing apps and taking their services offline for six months.The Commission said it will strengthen its inspection into the industry and expand collaboration with public security units in the future.Related. China on Thursday published a of a document that would provide national standards for digital data collection, opening the door to greater protection for the country’s internet users.The draft by the government-administered National Information Security Standardization Technical Committee would require app-makers to authorize access to their products once users hand over the minimum possible amount of personal data and permissions for the products to function. Users can also grant additional permissions but would not be required to do so.The draft includes lists of the minimum information requirements of 21 kinds of internet services, including map navigation, ride-hailing, instant messaging, blogs and forums, online payment, news media, and online shopping. The lists include both personal information that is legally required, such as phone numbers and transaction records, and additional personal information needed for the services themselves.The document would help to ensure that app developers don’t gain access to personal information unrelated to the nature of their services. For instance, it would allow a food delivery app to ask for your location, but not to have access to your photos.Additionally, the draft would prevent apps from transferring or sharing personal data with external services without the owner’s permission.
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Apps would also not be allowed to collect device identifiers, such as IMEI codes or MAC addresses, for anything other than security purposes, according to the draft.Related. China’s film regulator has suspended all mainland-made movies and their associated personnel from participating in a prestigious Taiwan-based film festival amid deteriorating cross-Strait relations.No mainland filmmakers or actors will attend the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards later this year, state-run media outlet China Film News, which is backed by the China Film Administration, said Wednesday in a posted to its official Weibo page. No official reason for the decision was given.The Golden Horse Awards are one of the most prominent events in the Chinese-language film industry.
The prizes were first awarded in 1962 and mainland Chinese moviemakers have been eligible to take part since 1996.The ceremony courted controversy last year when Taiwan director Fu Yue said during an acceptance speech that she hoped for Taiwanese independence, sparking heated debate among filmmakers, politicians, and netizens. Beijing regards Taiwan as an indivisible part of China and aims to reunite with the island in the future.Wednesday’s announcement marks the latest escalation of cross-Strait tensions. Last week, the Chinese government announced that it would stop issuing permits allowing tourists in 47 mainland cities to travel to Taiwan on an individual basis.Contact reporter Tang Ziyi ([email protected])Related.
Ten officers of the People’s Liberation Army were to the rank of general at a ceremony on Wednesday, the second such ceremony since the 19th Party Congress in October 2017.General is the highest rank for active service officers in China. Usually, selection to be promoted to the general rank requires serving as lieutenant general or at an equivalent level for four years, or two years in a theater command posting depending on length of time spent in the military and experience.However, six of the newly-promoted generals — Li Shangfu, Wu Shezhou, Zhu Shengling, Shen Jinlong, Zheng He, and An Zhaoqing — had only been elevated to lieutenant general or equivalent in 2016. It appears they have been fast-tracked.All 10 of the new generals are members of the Central Committee of the 19th Party Congress. Stay tuned for a closer look at their backgrounds.Read the full story on tomorrow.Correction: A previous version of this article mistranslated the term 'theater command.' Contact reporter Ren Qiuyu ([email protected])Related. Nur Bekri, the former head of China’s National Energy Administration (NEA), pleaded guilty to accepting millions of dollars’ worth of bribes during a Thursday court trial that may make him the latest high-profile former official to fall foul of an ongoing government crackdown on corruption.Bekri, who is Uyghur, stands accused of abusing a number of government positions he occupied between 1998 and 2018 to receive bribes totaling 79.1 million yuan ($11.5 million).
At the trial, which is taking place at an intermediate people’s court in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang, he said he regretted his misconduct while in office.Bekri previously served as the head of the NEA, but stepped down in September amid an investigation by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) — China’s anti-corruption watchdog — which accuses him of concealing the truth about the alleged bribes. The CCDI has also accused Bekri of nepotism and exchanging power for sex.Prior to his stint at the NEA, Bekri was the chief of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region from 2008 to 2014.The court has yet to announce its final ruling.Contact reporter Zhao Runhua ([email protected])Related. Eleven months after JD.com founder and Chairman Richard Liu was accused of rape by a Chinese student at the University of Minnesota, the state’s police force publicly released Wednesday materials collected during its investigation into the events of the controversial night in August that embroiled the e-commerce billionaire in a scandal.The cache of written, audio, and video materials includes testimonies from Richard Liu, his accuser — 22-year-old Jingyao Liu — and several witnesses. It also contains surveillance video footage from the apartment building where Jingyao Liu alleges the rape took place, as well as text messages asking for help sent by Jingyao Liu to her friend.John Elder, a spokesperson for the Minneapolis Police Department, told Caixin that police waited until now to release the materials because of the need to redact and legally review all of the related documents and video content before granting access to the public.Prosecutors decided in December not to press felony charges against Richard Liu, whose name in Chinese is Liu Qiangdong.
However, in April, Jingyao Liu filed a civil lawsuit in Minnesota seeking compensatory and punitive damages from the tech entrepreneur and his company.Richard Liu’s attorney, Jill Brisbois, said in a statement to the media that the released materials proved Liu’s innocence.Jingyao Liu told Caixin Thursday she intends to pursue the civil suit and hopes to win justice via legal channels. Her attorney, Wil Florin, told Caixin that they look forward to the court hearing and hope the judge and jury will examine “all the evidence, including what the police have not publicly released.”In an exclusive interview with Caixin in April, Liu Jingyao said that she had “never consented” to having sex with the tycoon.The hearing will take place in a Minnesota court on Sept. 11.Read this story in full on later today.Contact reporter Isabelle Li ([email protected])Related. Chinese rights lawyer Li Jinxing, who made his name fighting against wrongful convictions, is now contesting an official decision to revoke his license for “improper remarks on the internet.”Li filed an appeal on Wednesday against the decision by Shandong province authorities to take away Li’s license to practice law over his online criticism of China’s judiciary system.The Shandong Provincial Justice Bureau told Li on Monday that his Weibo posts dating back to April 2017 had included slanderous remarks about China’s judiciary system, which violated China’s Lawyer’s Law.
Li disputed this, telling Caixin his posts do not constitute an illegal act.Li is best known for defending activist Yang Maodong and for founding the Innocence Project of China, which has fought to overturn wrongful convictions.“All six of my Weibo posts are constructive statements. They are entirely within a lawyer’s rights granted by the Constitution,' Li, whose license had previously been suspended for one year in 2016, told Caixin.
“Lawyers handle cases according to law and publicly express their opinions in accordance with the law, and this safeguards the rights of the parties and the implementation of the law,” he said.Contact reporter Ren Qiuyu ([email protected]). China’s government will require certain cloud service providers to undergo safety inspections in a bid to better regulate the country’s administrative and commercial sectors.Starting from September, companies that provide cloud services for Communist Party organizations, government departments, and “operators of key information infrastructure” — an as-yet-unspecified group — will have to go through assessments performed by government-appointed technology groups, according to a jointly published Monday by four high-level government departments. The current mayor of Taiwan’s Kaohsiung has clinched the opposition’s nomination for the island’s leadershp election set for next year.Han Kuo-yu beat out Foxconn founder Terry Gou in the Kuomintang (KMT) primary and will face off with the Democratic Progressive Party’s nominee in 2020, the incumbent Tsai Ing-wen.Han was selected by the KMT based on telephone polling, winning a solid 44.8% of support. Gou came in second, with 27.7% of support. Han’s lead was higher than expected since the two have been close in polls since they announced their respective candidacies earlier this year.Some analysts suspect that Gou may still run as an independent candidate.Contact reporter Ren Qiuyu ([email protected]). Government will allow companies’ to sell products to Huawei that pose no threat to national security by issuing licenses, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross said Tuesday.The announcement with President Trump’s promise during the June G20 summit, when China and the U.S.
Sought to resume halted trade talks. Ross did not elaborate on expected dates of the issuances, nor did he specify which products will meet the license requirements.Despite allowing sales to Huawei, the Chinese telecom company will remain on a so-called “Entity List” which could deny applications of licenses, Ross said.President Trump declined to comment when asked by Caixin during the G20 summit whether it was possible to remove Huawei from the blacklist.Contact reporter Zhao Runhua ([email protected]). The former general manager of one of China’s largest shipbuilders has been sentenced to 12 years in prison and an 800,000 yuan ($116,445) fine for corruption and 'abuse of power,' state-run CCTV.Sun Bo abused his position at China Shipbuilding Industry Corp. (CSIC) and broke corporate accounting regulations for the benefit of his own career — a charge that usually refers to falsifying financial records — while causing “significant losses” to the national interest, a local court in Shanghai ruled Thursday, without providing further details. The court found that Sun and his wife had received bribes worth nearly 9 million yuan from 2000 to 2016.Sun, whose trial took place in March, pleaded guilty and said he would not appeal. The court said it had reduced Sun’s penalties as he had been honest about his crimes and had returned all the bribes.Sun was previously reported to have also been investigated for leaking national secrets in addition to corruption.
The court confirmed Sun's case had involved national secrets, without specifying if he had leaked them.Chinese authorities announced they were investigating Sun in June 2018, three years after he became the general manager of the shipbuilder and the deputy secretary of its Communist Party committee. He was in January.Related:Contact Reporter Zhao Runhua ([email protected]).