Company: CHNR
Filing Date: 2025-01-27
Form Type: POS AM
Source: 0001079973-25-000143
Chunk: 135

Company: CHINA NATURAL RESOURCES INC
Filing Date: 2025-01-27
Form: POS AM
Chunk 135
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 then existing laws and regulations related to personal information protections, such as the requirements on the collection, use, processing, storage and disclosure of personal information, and the requirements that internet service providers should take technical and other necessary measures to ensure the security the personal information they have collected and prevent such personal information from being divulged, damaged or lost. Any violation of the Cybersecurity Law could subject the internet service provider to warnings, fines, confiscation of illegal gains, revocation of licenses, shutdown of websites as well as criminal liabilities.

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On January 23, 2019, the Office of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission, the MIIT, the MPS, and the SAMR jointly issued the Announcement of Launching Special Crackdown Against Illegal Collection and Use of Personal Information via Apps, which restates the requirement of legal collection and use of personal information, encourages App operators to conduct security certifications, and encourages search engines and App stores to clearly mark and recommend those certified apps.

On November 28, 2019, the CAC, MIIT, the MPS and the SAMR jointly issued the Measures to Identify Illegal Collection and Usage of Personal Information by Apps, which describes six types of illegal collection and usage of personal information, including “non-disclosure of collection and use rules”, “failure to expressly state the purpose, method and scope of collecting and using personal information”, “collection or use of personal information without consent of users”, “collecting personal information unrelated to the services they provide in violation of the principle of necessity”, “providing others with personal information without the consent” and “failure to provide the function of deleting or correcting personal information in accordance with the law” or “failure to disclose the information on complaints and whistleblowing reports”.

On May 28, 2020, the NPC adopted the Civil Code of the PRC which became effective on January 1, 2021. According to the Civil Code, individuals have the right of privacy. No organization or individual shall process any individual’s private information or infringe on an individual’s right of privacy, unless otherwise prescribed by law or with the consent of such individual or such individual’s guardian. The Civil Code also offers protection to personal information and provides that the processing of personal information shall be subject to the principles of legitimacy, legality and necessity. An information processor must not divulge or falsify the personal information collected and stored by it, or provide the personal information of an individual to others without the consent of such individual. On March 12,