The LINE company’s personal information leakage incident is fermenting.
The communication software LINE has revealed that users’ personal information has been leaked and that Chinese outsourcing companies have been secretly monitoring users’ personal information and messages for up to 2 years, causing an outcry.
The Japanese media reported that this is only the tip of the iceberg, and that at least seven other large Japanese companies have confessed that their users’ personal information may have been leaked to China. Scholars even raised the alarm, pointing out that Japan and China have close trade relations and should conduct a comprehensive investigation.
The LINE company’s personal information leakage incident is fermenting, and the media has disclosed that the Japanese online financial giant SBI Holdings has officially cancelled its joint venture plan with Ping An Group of China, citing the fear of customer personal information leakage.
The Japanese media “Sankei Shimbun” followed up on the phenomenon of Chinese companies stealing the personal information of Japanese companies, and concluded that “the problem of similar LINE personal information leaking out of China is most likely just the tip of the iceberg.”
The Sankei Shimbun surveyed 117 Japanese companies and found that at least seven large companies, including those in the financial sector, had customers whose personal information could be transferred to China or could be viewed by Chinese companies. The common point of these seven companies is that most of them have trade relations with Chinese companies and have business dealings.
The report mentioned that the seven Japanese companies emphasized that they had signed confidentiality agreements with the Chinese companies and would follow privacy regulations. But the report also raises a sticking point, noting that according to the Chinese Communist Party’s National Intelligence Law, the Communist Party can forcibly collect personal information held by Chinese companies, “which means that the confidentiality agreements signed by private companies in China and Japan are meaningless.”
In addition, the report also points out that some companies with customer service centers in China, or those who outsource their business to Chinese companies, also face the situation of having their personal information viewed by the Chinese Communist Party. In addition, 20% of Japanese companies refused to be interviewed on this issue, a high percentage.
Many Japanese companies have bases in mainland China and are expanding their business in China, which also highlights the seriousness of the problem of personal information leakage, and in this regard, Kento Yuasa, a professor of public policy at Meiji University in Tokyo, told the Sankei Shimbun that in order to prevent the situation from becoming unmanageable, it is necessary for the Japanese government to conduct a comprehensive inventory to find out the possible risks and prevent the personal information of Japanese people from being arbitrarily inspected and used by the Chinese Communist Party. The Japanese government should conduct a comprehensive check to find out the possible risks and prevent the personal information of Japanese people from being freely viewed and used by the CCP.
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