Everyone has experienced unwanted marketing calls or texts on their phones.
According to an online survey, about 90% of some 2,400 people polled had experiencedsome effect of their personal information being leaked.
Top on the list as the worst offenses were anonymous messages, phone calls and spam, orunwanted advertising messages.
A Xinhua report says that it only takes half a yuan for an entire set of a person's credit carddata through tools like QQ or WeChat. The data we're talking about here include the name,phone number, address, work place, opening bank of the credit card, nearly all theimportant information needed that makes someone a victim of fraud or harassment.
But, that's not the worst of it. Research has shown that medical records, online shoppingrecords and even hotel check-in records are also available to sell on the internet, at a verycheap price.
The government is aware of the problem and is trying to fix it. An offence reportingnetwork and hotline have been opened for people...and the government is asking internetgiants like Tencent and Alibaba to share their responsibility to safeguard people's privateinformation.
