IT Home reported on March 2 that according to the Jiangsu Provincial Radio and Television Station "Litchi News" today, three people were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from 11 months to 8 months and fines for using face-changing software to help people unblock their accounts, constituting the crime of infringing on citizens' personal information.
It is reported that Li, who is keen on network technology, inadvertently discovered a "business opportunity" in 2020: after the account registered with other people's information was seized, someone was willing to spend money to restart it. Therefore, Li taught himself the technique of "unblocking the account", using the face changing software to turn the illegally obtained ID card ** into dynamic**, and then initiating an application for lifting the restriction on login on a specific mobile phone to help others unblock the account.
IT Home Note: On QQ, WeChat and other platforms, if the account is banned, it usually needs to be unblocked by measures such as face recognition**.
After that, Li posted advertisements on the Internet to solicit business, and met Zhao and Wei. The three of them worked together to "resurrect" the business of the WeChat account. Illegal profit in a short period of time 350,000 yuan.
The procuratorate believes that Li and other 3 people illegally obtained and ** citizens' personal information, and the circumstances are serious, and all of them have constituted the crime of infringing on citizens' personal information. Before the trial, Li and three others took the initiative to pay compensation for public interest litigation, and the three have been sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from 11 months to 8 months and fined.