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China drafts app whitelist, blacklist
2013-09-16 04:23:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) China's National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team Coordination Center (CNCERT) is drafting blacklist regulations for mobile malware and whitelist regulations for mobile apps. Reportedly, companies already on the whitelist include Qihoo 360, Tencent, NQ Mobile, Baidu, Kingsoft, An Guan Jia, Lenovo, Trend Micro, Eversec, Rising, and Antiy, ChinaTechNews.com reports. CNCERT will also open a reporting channel for the public. If whitelisted companies are reported for violations, they will be removed from the list and could face a permanent ban. To support the effort, the ICT ministry has launched two platforms to identify bad apps: a public reporting platform for malware and an app store reporting platform. So far, 34 app stores have implemented regulator app reports and some 7 million apps have already been tested.
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