Didi App Pulled from App Stores in China After Suspension Order (techcrunch.com) 14
China has ordered app-store operators to remove the app of Didi from their stores, the latest as tension escalates between the nation's largest ride-hailing giant and local regulators. From a report: The app has disappeared from several stores including Apple's App Store in China, TechCrunch can confirm. The nation's cyberspace administration, which unveiled the order on Sunday, said Didi was illegally collecting users' personal data. The ride-hailing giant, which counts Apple, SoftBank, and Tencent and Uber among its investors and filed for an IPO late last month, has been ordered to make changes to comply with Chinese data protection rules. The move comes after the Chinese internet watchdog announced a probe into Didi over "national security" concerns earlier this week. Didi raised at least $4 billion this week after the New York Stock Exchange debut in one of the largest U.S. IPOs. In a statement, Didi said it had removed its app from various app stores and begun the "corrections." It also said it had halted new user registrations on Saturday. For existing users, the Didi app remains operational.
China banned a company for collecting data? (Score:2)
Not the real problem (Score:1)
The nation's cyberspace administration, which unveiled the order on Sunday, said Didi was illegally collecting users' personal data.
The problem was probably not the collection of personal data, but some unwillingness to forward on what data they collected to the government of China...
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The nation's cyberspace administration, which unveiled the order on Sunday, said Didi was illegally collecting users' personal data.
The problem was probably not the collection of personal data, but some unwillingness to forward on what data they collected to the government of China...
That sounds like a clunky system, especially because it forewarns the perspective victims of the espionage. The CCP should take a leaf out of the playbook of the NSA and just listen in on and achieve Didi's comms chatter wholesale by bugging the national network backbone. That eliminates any need to twist Didi's arm to get them to cooperate. The Americans are much more subtle about their mass surveillance.
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That sounds like a clunky system, especially because it forewarns the perspective victims of the espionage.
Yes, but the assumption should be that the CCP is spying on everyone with every approved app.
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The Americans are much more subtle about their mass surveillance.
That is because the CCP is interested in mass intimidation more than mass surveillance. They want the public to know they are being monitored, so that fear will keep them in line.
When you walk through a city in China, you will see a camera on every block. There is no attempt at all to hide them. They want you to know you're being watched.
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The Americans are much more subtle about their mass surveillance.
That is because the CCP is interested in mass intimidation more than mass surveillance. They want the public to know they are being monitored, so that fear will keep them in line.
When you walk through a city in China, you will see a camera on every block. There is no attempt at all to hide them. They want you to know you're being watched.
Actually, on a cameras per citizen basis. the US has China beaten: https://www.techspot.com/news/... [techspot.com] ... but you are right in a way, in the US they rely on guns to intimidate the citizenry, not cameras.
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In China the surveillance is widely seen as a good thing. The propaganda is similar to how it is in the UK. Trust the police, trust the government, security services are working to keep you safe. These cameras are used to catch criminals.
In China they have the benefit of years of double digit economic growth and rapidly improving quality of life for the great majority of citizens. As such all the surveillance is widely seen as a good thing and people are not afraid of it, in fact it makes them feel safe.
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Companies that IPO outside china (Score:4, Interesting)
It seems that the chinese government is gunning for chinese companies that are trying to get funding from outside china in open markets.
I don't understand the motivation, is this just a way to keep control, as, as far as I know, all this companies are partially owned by the government, or are they afraid that having companies listed in international markets will force them to disclose information about internal operation (financial or otherwise) that the Party doesn't want?
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Keep in mind this is a taxi company, not a platform for the exchange of ideas.
The issue here is that Didi is supposed to give the Chinese security services access to data, but doesn't. The national security laws there are a bit like the ones in the US, companies are obliged to cooperate and there are very few ways to legally challenge requests.
The government is worried that Didi is not complying for riders in China, and will use US expansion to move data offshore and out of jurisdiction. They are just turni
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I think it's more a matter of the CCP (China Communist Party) does not want a seperate power base within China.
Jack Ma's every word and every move was watched by many Chinese, so that they can follow in his foot steps. So were all the other billionaire founders.
This gives them huge influence in China, which the CCP probably finds as potential competition.
So what better way to remove / reduce the competition then by clipping the wings of all these high profile organisations and founders? The CCP is not bothe
Again? (Score:1)
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But you can be bothered to make a throw away account instead of posting as AC? Interesting....