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On August 30, ZAO, a mobile app that allows users to transpose their faces onto celebrities鈥 faces in hit movies or TV series, instantly went viral in China.
But on September 1, a privacy backlash was triggered after users found the app鈥檚 terms and conditions required users to grant it and other users the right to 鈥渋rrevocably鈥 use their photos.
On September 3, ZAO鈥檚 creators were summoned to a meeting with officials from China鈥檚 Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
The officials demanded the company make corrections and abide by laws regarding the collection of personal information.
The app鈥檚 rise and fall within days sparked heated discussion nationwide about personal information protection.
In the run-up to China Cybersecurity Week from next Wednesday to September 22, industry watchers said government agencies and enterprises are pushing personal data protection and welcoming regulation of data privacy.
According to the Office of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission, personal information protection will be one of the focuses and highlights of this year鈥檚 China Cybersecurity Week.
The collection of users鈥 data by mobile apps is a growing problem in recent years, along with data breaches in online attacks, insider data theft and misoperation, said Pei Zhiyong, director of the Industry Safety Research Center under Qi Anxin, a leading Chinese cybersecurity company.
The Office of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Public Security and the State Administration for Market Regulation launched a joint campaign on the collection of personal data in mobile apps.
More than 400 popular apps were evaluated and around 100 apps were asked to improve data protection.
And government agencies and enterprises are paying more attention to their network security.
A report by Qi Anxin and Chinese online recruitment service Zhaopin said the demand for network security talent in China in June outstripped that of January 2016 by more than 24 times.
The skills demand in network security is more evenly distributed across the country. In 2019, the proportion of the five cities with the largest demand for skills in network security dropped from 60.7 percent to 48.8 percent, indicating skills are no longer concentrated in big cities.
A report issued during the Beijing Cyber Security Conference in August said that around 48.5 percent of China鈥檚 government agencies and 56.3 percent centrally administered state-owned enterprises have deployed security operation centers, and the response time to security events has been reduced to less than one hour from about three days in 2016.
In the first half of 2019, more than 100 million enterprises鈥 computers had security software installed.
That compares with about 60 million in 2016.
The repair cycle for computer system vulnerabilities has dropped to 16 days from 35 days in 2016.
Wu Hequan, from the Chinese Academy of Engineering and president of the Internet Society of China, said that it is human weaknesses that give hackers the simplest route to compromising systems.
Wu said cybersecurity awareness should be further raised among government agencies and enterprises.
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