China has tightened regulations for mobile app developers. Rules now require real-name registration and preserving users' activity logs, Reuters reports, citing internet regulator Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC). The watchdog says mobile app providers would need to comply with six requirements to help reduce "unscrupulous" use of their platforms to carry out fraud, distribute pornography and spread malicious rumors. "A small number of apps have been exploited by criminal types to spread violence and terrorism, pornographic material, rumors and other illegal information," the regulator said.
Mobile app developers will have to verify users' identities with real-name registration, strengthen censorship and punish users who spread ‘illicit information’ on their platforms, the CAC said. Mobile app providers will also have to save user activity logs for a period of 60 days.
