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China's computer virus center exposes apps involved in illegal data exports

( April 21, 2025, 09:42 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: The National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center, a technical support unit for China's Internet regulator, has disclosed for the first time two apps involved in the illegal outbound transfer of personal information. The apps Wu Ge Xing Hai, for teenagers' development, and Yi Qi Liao, for large-scale group chats, failed to ensure the right of data subjects to be informed and to seek their explicit consent before exporting their data. The center also cited 11 other apps for data privacy violations, including inadequate privacy policies, failure to obtain consent and lack of functions to delete or correct personal data. The statement, in Chinese, follows: ...

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