U.S. media reports, in accordance with the regulations drained by the Chinese government, in recent years, Apple, which has been used in mainland China and Hong Kong protests, AIRDROP and similar file sharing programs will face stricter control.
According to the news released by China Network News Network (June 6), in order to regulate the close -range self -networking information services, safeguard national security and social public interests, and protect the legal, legal person and other organizations.Rights and interests, China National Internet Information Office (National Network Information Office) issued a close -up network information service management regulations (draft for comments), which requires close -range self -networking information service providers to provide significantClearly provide the pairing confirmation function between the publisher and the receiver; each pairing needs to be confirmed and agreed by the publisher and the receiver. Without the consent of the two parties, it is not allowed to automatically match the default.
Self-setting information services at close range refers to the use of information technologies such as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi to set up networks and provide services to publish and receive information.
Related regulations do not name AirDrop or their local competitors.
The proposed provisions stated that the new technologies, applications, and new functions of the self -consolidation information service provider with public opinion attributes or social mobilization capabilities should be carried out in accordance with relevant national regulations.
The draft of this regulation publicly solicited opinions from the society, the deadline is July 6.The State Cyber Information Office did not explain when the relevant regulations will take effect.
Apple launched a new feature related to AirDrop this week, called namedrop. When using this function, you can put the device together to exchange contact information.
According to the Wall Street Journal of the United States, China's business environment is becoming increasingly difficult to control, and the category of national security issues defined by the government has continued to expand, but it is not clear that where the red line is elusive.
The Chinese government has tightened communication technology regulations in recent years, and the application of encrypted information is not popular.
Reported that Airdrop was used in "white paper movement" last year. In addition, in 2019, Digital stores in Apple and Google have removed applications related to Hong Kong's anti -repair examples.
You Yunting, a senior partner of Shanghai Dabang Law Firm, said that according to the proposed rules, if the government proposes requests on the grounds of security, operators may have to hand over the phone number of users who use these services to send information.Identity information or other information.
The above -mentioned draft draft also requires that the self -collection information service provider must preserve the relevant records and find that any illegal or bad information must report to the relevant authorities such as the network information.As for what is illegal or bad information, there is no specific explanation, but a series of laws and regulations released recently mainly focused on personal data protection, network security, anti -spy and energy.
According to Apple reports, in the second half of 2021, the company received a request from the Chinese government on user equipment information and met 93%of them.Apple also received 70 requests on user account information, which met 83%of them.
The new regulations will also require technology companies to "close and receive" the default settings of the file sharing function.Without user permission, it is not allowed to provide information preview functions such as snapshot, thumbnails, etc. default.These measures are designed to solve concerns about the sharing services of documents, including unauthorized or unexpected sharing of explicit or sensitive content.
Apple's AirDrop settings increased the "10 minutes to everyone" last year, replaced the previous "owner" option, and limited the user to use this feature to contact them.The time of the equipment in the list.
