Before and after China’s new data laws: privacy in apps
Privacy in apps is a topic of widespread interest because many apps collect and share large amounts of highly sensitive information. In response, China introduced a range of new data protection laws over recent years, notably the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) in 2021. So far, there exis...
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| author | Kollnig, K Zhang, L Zhao, J Shadbolt, N |
| author_facet | Kollnig, K Zhang, L Zhao, J Shadbolt, N |
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| description | Privacy in apps is a topic of widespread interest
because many apps collect and share large amounts of highly
sensitive information. In response, China introduced a range
of new data protection laws over recent years, notably the
Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) in 2021. So far,
there exists limited research on the impacts of these new laws
on apps’ privacy practices. To address this gap, this paper
analyses data collection in pairs of 634 Chinese iOS apps,
one version from early 2020 and one from late 2021. Our
work finds that many more apps now implement consent. Yet,
those end-users that decline consent will often be forced to
exit the app. Fewer apps now collect data without consent but
many still integrate tracking libraries. We see our findings as
characteristic of a first iteration at Chinese data regulation
with room for improvement. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:b0bf8cf4-7f13-4f28-9150-3468de6ea78b2024-06-10T11:43:43ZBefore and after China’s new data laws: privacy in appsConference itemhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_5794uuid:b0bf8cf4-7f13-4f28-9150-3468de6ea78bEnglishSymplectic Elements2023Kollnig, KZhang, LZhao, JShadbolt, NPrivacy in apps is a topic of widespread interest because many apps collect and share large amounts of highly sensitive information. In response, China introduced a range of new data protection laws over recent years, notably the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) in 2021. So far, there exists limited research on the impacts of these new laws on apps’ privacy practices. To address this gap, this paper analyses data collection in pairs of 634 Chinese iOS apps, one version from early 2020 and one from late 2021. Our work finds that many more apps now implement consent. Yet, those end-users that decline consent will often be forced to exit the app. Fewer apps now collect data without consent but many still integrate tracking libraries. We see our findings as characteristic of a first iteration at Chinese data regulation with room for improvement. |
| spellingShingle | Kollnig, K Zhang, L Zhao, J Shadbolt, N Before and after China’s new data laws: privacy in apps |
| title | Before and after China’s new data laws: privacy in apps |
| title_full | Before and after China’s new data laws: privacy in apps |
| title_fullStr | Before and after China’s new data laws: privacy in apps |
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