DiDi in deep doo-doo over 64 billion illegal acts of data collection
The Cyberspace Administration of China has fined ride-sharing company DiDi global ¥8.026 billion for more than 64 billion illegal acts of data collection that it says were carried out maliciously and threatened national security.The Administration enumerated DiDi's indiscretions as follows:
The Administration also found DiDi asked for irrelevant permissions on users' smartphones and did not give an accurate or clear explanation for processing 19 types of personal information.about the incident points out that the fine is a special administrative penalty because DiDi flouted China's Network Security Law, Data Security Law, and Personal Information Protection Law – and did so for seven years in some cases.
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