Recently, a number of parents in Changsha complained that when buying school uniforms for their children, the online shopping page requires that the child's name, school, grade, class and other information must be filled. Parents are puzzled: "Just know the recipient address and ***, why is it necessary to know the child's personal information?"."They are worried that this information will leak their children's privacy. You must know that the platform for filling in the information does not belong to the school, but to a business**.
Judging from the news reports, we can sort out the sales chain of the local school uniform industry: an Internet platform has cooperation with a number of school uniform manufacturers, no matter which manufacturer parents buy from for consumption, they need to place orders from this Internet platform. As long as the order is placed, parents must follow the guidance of the webpage and fill in many personal information of their children, otherwise they will not be able to complete the purchase. And for this Internet platform, in the end, it is not only a deal, but also a huge amount of student information.
Once this information is collected, it will be stored to, where it goes, and where it will be usedHow to ensure that its use is legal and compliant?Will it be regarded as a "commercial resource" by the Internet platform and its partners, and they will sell it or do other "development and utilization" at will?Parents' worries are not unfounded.
In recent years, there have been incidents of leakage of student information by internet platforms. For example, this year, the Chinese University student information leak incident, ** investigation found that on the Internet, "1 yuan can buy the information of 200 students";The system of a training institution in Xiamen was illegally invaded by "hackers", and nearly 20,000 pieces of personal information of students were leaked. In 2022, the "Learning Xi Pass" database is suspected of occurring 1700 million pieces of student information were leaked, and they were sold for "10 yuan per person" ......
In the eyes of some institutions and personnel, these big data collected by illegal means have become props that facilitate businesses to accurately acquire customers, promote information in a targeted manner, and even engage in illegal and criminal activities. Those who are innocent of the leaked information will be harassed by various advertising information, and may be targeted by black industries such as online loans and wire fraud.
In particular, this school uniform incident is also directly related to minors, how can parents not be more vigilant and vigilant?
China has clear and standardized requirements for Internet platforms to collect user information. Article 6 of the Personal Information Protection Act stipulates that "the processing of personal information shall have a clear and reasonable purpose, and shall be directly related to the purpose of processing, and shall be carried out in a manner that has the least impact on the rights and interests of individuals." The collection of personal information shall be limited to the minimum scope to achieve the purpose of processing, and personal information must not be excessively collected. ”
In recent years, the legal awareness of the whole society on the collection of personal information has been significantly improved. In the context of the consensus of "minimum collection" and "non-essential collection", some platforms are still trying to obfuscate and force collection, which is naturally disgusting. In this case, it is necessary for the platform to prove the legality and compliance of the collected information. Otherwise, it is necessary for the relevant authorities to intervene in the investigation, and if it is confirmed that it is an excessive collection, it should be required to be corrected, and the information that has been collected should be properly disposed of to address the concerns of parents.
From another point of view, this incident also exposed a new kind of school uniform chaos, reminding that school uniform management also needs to strengthen the whole process of supervision. In 2015, the Ministry of Education and other departments jointly issued the "Opinions on Further Strengthening the Management of School Uniforms for Primary and Secondary School Students", which clearly proposed to "continuously improve the standardization and scientificity of school uniform selection and procurement". In 2021, the Ministry of Education once again stated that it would "strive to solve the problems of disguised compulsory purchase, high quality, excessive style categories, frequent changes, and non-standard procurement procedures in the procurement process of school uniforms".
After the chaos of compulsory purchase of school uniforms, inflated standards, and non-transparent procurement has been gradually reversed, unreasonable and unnecessary information collection, which is a "non-standard procedure", should attract the attention of the competent departments of education, market supervision departments, consumer rights protection agencies, etc., and make great efforts to solve them.
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