Today, Xiaomi App Store announced that it will continue to carry out a series of actions against “Apps infringing on user rights and interests”, and at the same time launch a special investigation of “violating laws and regulations through hot update capabilities”.
App infringes on user rights governance
The official Xiaomi app store stated that in recent years, problems such as illegal collection and use of personal information, excessive claims, and frequent harassment infringing users’ rights and interests have still occurred from time to time.
The Xiaomi App Store will carry out a series of actions of “App Infringement on User Rights and Interests Governance”, and conduct privacy and security compliance inspections on apps on the shelf.
As of June 30, the privacy and security issue detection of all on-shelf applications has been completed. In the process of assisting developers to complete compliance revisions, a total of 11,375 applications that could not be contacted and refused to be rectified were removed from the shelves.
At the same time, cleaning applications are high-incidence areas of user complaints such as “frequent malicious pop-up windows” and “infringement of user privacy”, which seriously violated the legitimate rights and interests of Xiaomi users and the MIUI system experience.
This “Series of Governance Actions for App Infringement of User Rights and Interests” will also conduct centralized inspection and governance for products that are on the shelf and not on the shelf.
The Xiaomi App Store will stop the inclusion of clean-up apps from now on, and will gradually promote measures such as delisting from July 12, 2022. In the next step, the Xiaomi App Store will also carry out a special inspection campaign for “SDK privacy compliance issues”, focusing on special rectification of “App and SDK illegal handling of personal user information” and other issues.
For problematic apps, developers will be given priority to guide Make rectification by themselves within the specified time limit, and the app will handle problems such as overdue rectification or refusal to cooperate.
Special investigation of “Illegal and Violating Behaviors Through Hot Update Capability”
The official Xiaomi app store pointed out that in the Internet industry, protecting users’ software experience and information security has gradually become an industry trend. In the past detection and inspection operations, the Xiaomi App Store found that a large number of illegal applications engaged in illegal activities through the technical method of “hot update”. “Hot update violation” is also a high-incidence area for user reports and feedback.
At present, due to the strong technical concealment of the “hot update” capability, it is often used by unscrupulous developers for technical confrontation, bypassing supervision and detection. The Xiaomi App Store stated that it firmly supports the elimination of such applications that engage in illegal activities through “hot update” means, and actively builds technical capabilities and institutional means to rectify “hot update violation” products.
Next, the Xiaomi App Store will carry out a one-year special investigation of “violating laws and regulations through hot update capabilities”. For products that integrate “hot update capability” or “installation and execution of application features/function codes that can be changed”, conduct continuous inspection and testing, and remove products that are clearly identified as having violations and take necessary measures to deal with them.
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