Company: TME
Filing Date: 2025-04-23
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0000950170-25-056949
Chunk: 179

Company: Tencent Music Entertainment Group
Filing Date: 2025-04-23
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 4
Chunk 179
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, the Personal Information Protection Law provides, among others, that (i) an individual’s consent shall be obtained to use sensitive personal information, (ii) personal information operators using sensitive personal information shall notify individuals of the necessity of such use and impact on the individual’s rights, and (iii) where it is necessary for personal information to be provided by a personal information processor to a recipient outside the territory of the PRC due to any business need or any other need, a security assessment organized by the national cyberspace authority shall be passed.
On February 6, 2023, the MIIT issued the Notice on Further Improving the Service Capability of Mobile Internet Apps, or the Mobile Internet Apps Notice. The Mobile Internet Apps Notice requires further enhancement of the service capability of mobile internet apps and reiterates the need to protect the legitimate rights and interests of the users and create a healthy service ecology. Specifically, the Mobile Internet Apps Notice emphasizes, among other things, the regulation of installation and unloading activities, the optimization of service experience, strengthening personal information protection, responding to users’ demands and the implementation of responsibilities of the developer and operator of mobile apps.
Regulations on Infringement upon Intellectual Property Rights via Internet
The PRC Civil Code, which was adopted by the National People’s Congress on May 28, 2020 and became effective on January 1, 2021, provides that (i) an online service provider should be held liable for its own tortious acts in providing online services; (ii) where an internet user engages in tortious conduct through internet services, the obligee shall have the right to notify the internet service provider that it should take necessary action such as by deleting content, screening, breaking links, etc. After receiving the notice, the network service provider shall promptly forward the notice to the relevant network user and take necessary measures in light of the preliminary evidence of infringement and the type of service; if the internet service provider fails to take necessary action after being notified, it shall be jointly and severally liable with the internet user with regard to the additional injury or damage suffered and (iii) where an internet service provider knows or should have known that an internet user is infringing upon other people’s civil rights and interests through its internet service but fails to take necessary action, it shall be jointly and severally liable with the internet user.
Regulations on Algorithm and AI
On September 17, 2021, the CAC and eight other authorities jointly promulgated the Notice on Promulg