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China cracks down on personal information collection. No, seriously

ID: 149a1563-7f4b-590f-ba04-144eef12bb34

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Feed Name: The Register (Security)

Date Published: 2025-03-31

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Simon Sharwood

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A regional tech roundup highlights China’s multi-agency crackdown on improper personal data collection across apps, SDKs, wearables, facial recognition, and offline code-scanning; Indonesia’s decision to allow iPhone 16 sales alongside new child-protection rules limiting social media registrations; a new alliance among Japanese OSAT providers; Japan Airlines’ pilot of an offline GenAI tool to draft flight reports; and ISRO’s successful test toward a higher-thrust semi-cryogenic engine to boost LVM3 payload capacity.

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