Filed under app-compliance
Every brief tagged "app-compliance".
- § 07 · ENFORCEMENT
CAC Names 30 Apps and Mini-Programs for PI Violations — Nearly Half for Ineffective Account Cancellation
On June 11, 2026 the Office of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission published a notification naming 30 apps and mini-programs for personal-information collection and use violations, found in testing organized under the 2026 CAC + MIIT + MPS joint special campaign. The violations fall into four categories — undisclosed PI collection rules (7 apps), frequent demands for non-essential permissions (4), incomplete SDK disclosure (5), and, the dominant category at 14 of 30, failure to provide an effective account-cancellation function. DCC reads the notification as the CAC tier of the same campaign whose MIIT testing tier we covered in the Batch 56 brief: a broader perimeter that expressly includes mini-programs, a 15-working-day rectify-and-report deadline, and a clear signal that exit rights — account cancellation and deletion — are a 2026 testing priority.
- § 08 · ENFORCEMENT
MIIT Public-Naming Bulletin 2026 Batch 3 (Total Batch 56): 31 Apps and SDKs Cited for PI Violations and Window-Redirect Abuse
MIIT's Information & Communications Administration Bureau published its 2026 Batch 3 public-naming bulletin (total Batch 56) on May 21, 2026, citing 31 apps and SDKs for violations of personal-information collection rules and window-redirect abuse. DCC frames this as the first entry in our enforcement tracker — explaining the joint CAC + MIIT + MPS 2026 Special Campaign that authorizes the batches, the four-statute legal architecture invoked, the rectification-then-enforcement pathway each named entity faces, the cadence of the bulletin series (roughly monthly, 56 batches since inception), and the operational picture this gives overseas counsel of which PI-protection violations actually attract enforcement in the Chinese mobile-app channel.
- § 09 · PERSONAL-INFORMATION
Is There Such a Thing as 'Game Data Compliance' in China? — Li Wenlong's Field Notes
Li Wenlong (科技利维坦) reports field observations on personal-data collection inside Chinese games, framed around three questions: is there an industry-specific 'game data compliance' mode; where is enforcement actually concentrated; and does the Chinese picture differ from abroad. His read: domestic game-data compliance is still at a 'wild-west stage' — the violations being caught are the blunt, clearly-unlawful kind (a game demanding photo-album permission), and the enforcement frontier is no different from any other app ecosystem. A principle-level framework was in place before 2023, but the yardstick stays crude, with no breakthrough on concrete evaluation standards — which caps how deep either enforcement or compliance can go. Overseas (GDPR and consumer law), games were under-scrutinised until the last year or two. The forward warning: games will be the main carrier of VR and will embed many models, so the compliance picture is about to get far more complex. For overseas counsel advising game studios on the China market: a reality check on what is — and isn't — being enforced.