On August 25th, according to the technical test results, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the Notice on the List of Apps Infringeing Users' Rights and Interests (hereinafter referred to as the Notice), and 67 apps were removed from the shelves because they failed to complete the rectification within the time limit, including 8 educational apps, namely Countdown to the College Entrance Examination, Asking about Chinese Studies, Chuanghehui, Moliqiu, Changtou School, Step by Step Literacy, Rubik's Cube Thinking and RAZ Classroom, which were removed from different app stores.
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The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology requires relevant application stores to immediately remove the application software on the list after the issuance of this notice.
According to the circular, the application developer of Step by Step Literacy is Shanghai Step by Step Yule Information Technology Co., Ltd., which is an early education enlightenment software for children's literacy. This time, the version of "Bubu Literacy" in Bao (10.7.2) was applied because of "illegally collecting personal information; Force users to use the directional push function; APP is mandatory, frequent, and excessively asks for permission. " Three problems have not been rectified and required to be dismantled.
The application developer of Rubik's Cube Thinking is Shanghai Yibianxue Education Technology Co., Ltd., which is an intelligent education platform for children's online learning. This time, pea pods's version of "Magic Cube Thinking" (1.04.00) has not been rectified because of two problems: illegal collection and illegal use of personal information.
The application developer of "Countdown to College Entrance Examination" is Dalian Tuozhong Education Technology Co., Ltd., which mainly provides users with online applications for studying abroad and overseas services in more than ten mainstream countries and regions such as the United States, Britain, Australia, Canada and Japan, while the "Countdown to College Entrance Examination" app is mainly suitable for high school students preparing for the college entrance examination. This time, the "Countdown to the College Entrance Examination" version (4.2.7) of Xiaomi App Store was removed from the shelves because it did not complete the rectification of the problem of "illegally collecting personal information".
In addition, the corresponding versions of the five apps, Ask Guoxue, Chuanghehui, Molyball, Changtou Xuetang and RAZ Classroom, have also been removed due to the problem of "illegal collection of personal information".