The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology launched a special rectification campaign for the Internet industry: focusing on rectifying issues such as App launching pop-up windows to deceive and mislead users

According to the website of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on July 26, based on the previous special rectification of Apps, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology further sorted out the hot and difficult issues in the Internet industry that have high social attention, wide impact, and strong public response, and decided to carry out a special rectification action in the Internet industry, aiming to guide the formation of an open, interconnected, safe and orderly market environment, and promote the standardized, healthy and high-quality development of the industry.

The special rectification campaign focuses on eight types of problems in four aspects, including disrupting market order, infringing user rights, threatening data security, and violating resource and qualification management regulations, involving 22 specific scenarios. In terms of disrupting market order, the focus is on rectifying problems such as maliciously blocking URL links and interfering with the operation of other companies' products or services, including scenarios such as restricting normal access to other URL links without legitimate reasons and implementing discriminatory blocking measures; in terms of infringing user rights, the focus is on rectifying problems such as application software launching pop-up windows to deceive and mislead users and forcibly provide personalized services, including scenarios such as pop-up windows that are full of jump links and providing false close buttons when pushing targeted messages; in terms of threatening data security, the focus is on rectifying problems such as companies failing to take necessary management and technical measures as required in the collection, transmission, storage and external provision of data, including scenarios such as failure to encrypt sensitive information during data transmission and failure to obtain user consent before providing data to third parties; in terms of illegal resource and qualification management regulations, the focus is on rectifying "black broadband" and failure to perform website registration procedures, including scenarios such as subletting or using illegal network access resources and failure to update registration information in a timely manner.

On July 23, 2021, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology held a teleconference to mobilize and deploy the special rectification action in the Internet industry, officially launching a six-month special rectification action. Liu Liehong, member of the Party Leadership Group and Vice Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, attended the meeting and delivered a mobilization speech, and Chief Engineer Han Xia attended the meeting. In the next step, the special rectification action will consolidate the main responsibility of enterprises, strengthen coordination and linkage, strengthen integrity and self-discipline, do a good job in publicity and guidance, form a long-term mechanism, ensure results, and effectively improve the people's sense of gain.