Category: Industry News
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Beware the Traps of Online Gambling
Prosecutors report a sharp rise in cases of running online casinos disguised as card and chess games. Cross-border online gambling is deceptive, hidden and organised, and the public is advised to watch for withdrawal features as a tell.
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Let Data Flow: Promoting Efficient Allocation of Data Elements
The opening of the Shanghai Data Exchange marks a major step for China’s data element market. Balancing development, privacy protection and public security is the key to releasing the digital dividend.
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Internet Industry Grows Steadily, Becoming an Engine of Innovation
The China Internet Society’s 2021 comprehensive strength index shows the industry growing steadily, with top-100 firms’ internet business revenue at 4.1 trillion yuan, R&D spending up 16.8 percent, and a healthy, regulated development path ahead.
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Social Media Accounts Deserve Dual-Track Ownership Protection
As social account ownership and trading become hot disputes, a legal expert argues for dual-track ownership: users own the account, operators own the intellectual property, with the two rights independent yet complementary.
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Time to Consider Getting a Digital Currency Wallet
China’s domestically developed hardware digital currency wallet has passed testing, supporting fingerprint unlock, e-CNY payments and balance inquiry. As digital yuan pilots expand, wallets may soon join mainstream payments.
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MIIT Guides First Cloud Drive Firms to Launch Uniform-Speed Products
Under MIIT guidance, eight leading cloud drive providers including Baidu, Tencent and Alibaba have signed a self-regulation pact promising upload and download speeds that no longer discriminate between free and paying users.
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MIIT Issues Three Plans in One Day, Charting IT Industry’s Five-Year Route
MIIT has released three five-year plans in a single day covering the deep integration of IT and industry, the software industry and big data, targeting software revenue above 14 trillion yuan and a big data sector above 3 trillion yuan by 2025.
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Internet Ads Should Not Be a Forced Melon
Draft rules on internet advertising would guarantee one-click closing, require clear labelling of ads disguised as reviews, and hand the power of choice back to consumers, a commentary notes.
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Opening External Links Across Platforms Is a Win-Win
WeChat’s move to open external links in chats marks progress in ending link blocking. Interconnection is the inevitable choice for the internet industry’s high-quality development, a commentary argues.
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Forced Face Recognition? Un-Deletable Accounts? New Rules Are Coming
A draft regulation on network data security management would ban making face or fingerprint the only way to verify identity, require separate consent for sensitive personal information, and mandate deleting personal data within 15 working days of account closure.