First Security Assessments for Face Recognition Systems Begin
China's national AI product testing centre has launched the first security assessment campaign for face recognition systems, testing resistance to presentation, injection and adversarial attacks against national and industry standards.
Don’t Let Express Waybills Become a Privacy Black Hole
As holiday shopping peaks, the personal information printed on express delivery waybills has become a leak risk. Privacy waybills protect consumers and save paper, but low delivery efficiency has slowed their adoption.
App Auto-Renewal: Easy to Fall In, Hard to Climb Out
"Free membership", "seven days for one cent", "six-yuan diamond membership": auto-renewal tactics trap consumers into subscriptions that are easy to start and painfully hard to cancel, an investigation finds.
Worried Apps Are Watching You? MIIT Steps In
MIIT is launching a special rectification of the internet industry covering four areas and eight problem types across 22 scenarios, from malicious link blocking and misleading pop-ups to data security and unlicensed network resources.
MIIT Cracks Down on Splash-Screen Popups That Harass Users
Pop-up ads with invisible labels, tiny close buttons and disguised pages that trick users into clicking are being targeted in a concentrated MIIT rectification of app user-rights violations.
Good News: The Personal Information Protection Law Takes Effect
China's Personal Information Protection Law took effect on 1 November, banning excessive data collection and big-data price discrimination, regulating sensitive information such as face data, and improving complaint and reporting mechanisms.
Supreme People’s Court Moves Against Big-Data Price Discrimination
A new Supreme People's Court opinion pledges severe punishment for platform practices such as forced exclusivity and big-data price discrimination, and extends IP protection to algorithms, business methods and AI outputs.
MIIT Regulates PC Pop-Ups: No Forcing Consent Through ‘Default Agree’
MIIT has summoned major software firms to rectify PC pop-up harassment, banning silent auto-start pop-ups, hard-to-close windows and bundled installs, and requiring clear close options and honest labelling.
Surgical Robot Industry Rises in China: Demand Grows Year by Year
Financing in surgical robots has reached nearly USD 1.4 billion this year, and domestic innovation is becoming the trend as Intuitive Fosun opens a da Vinci innovation center in Shanghai.
ZTE Ups Its Stake in Chip Unit as Next-Stage Strategy Takes Shape
ZTE says consumer product shipments will top 100 million units in 2021, over half powered by its own chips, as it raises its stake in ZTE Microelectronics and maps its next strategic cycle.
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