Company: ZHIHF
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001410578-25-000729
Chunk: 109

Company: Zhihu Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 3
Chunk 109
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 2022. The provisions require that internet pop-up push notification service providers should implement the responsibilities as subjects of information content management and establish and improve management systems for censoring of information content, ecological governance, data security, and personal information protection, and protection of minors.

On November 25, 2022, the CAC, the MIIT, and the Ministry of Public Security jointly issued the Administrative Provisions on Deep Synthesis of Internet Information Services, which took effect on January 10, 2023. According to the provisions, deep synthesis technology refers to any technology that utilizes deep learning, virtual reality, or any other generative or synthetic algorithm to produce text, images, audio, video, virtual scenes, or other network information. The provisions emphasize that deep synthesis service providers, as the primary entities responsible for the information security, should not use deep synthesis services to engage in activities prohibited by laws and regulations.

On June 12, 2024, the CAC and other three authorities jointly promulgated the Provisions on Governance of Cyber Violence Information, which came into effect on August 1, 2024, regulating activities related to cyber violence information within the PRC. Internet information service providers are given primary responsibility for managing Internet content and establishing, maintaining, and continually improving mechanisms for restricting cyberviolence information.

Regulations Relating to Mobile Internet Applications Information Services

In addition to the PRC Telecommunications Regulations and other regulations above, mobile internet applications, or apps, are specially regulated by the Administrative Provisions on Mobile Internet Applications Information Services, which were promulgated by the CAC on June 28, 2016 and last amended on June 14, 2022 and took effect on August 1, 2022. The provisions set forth requirements on the app information service providers and the App Store service providers. The CAC and its local branches shall be responsible for the supervision and administration of nationwide and local app information respectively.

App providers shall strictly fulfill their responsibilities of information security management, and perform the following duties: (i) in accordance with the principle of “real name at background, any name at foreground,” verify identities with the registered users through mobile phone numbers, ID numbers, unified social credit codes, and other measures; (ii) establish and improve the mechanism for user information security protection, follow the principle of “legality, appropriateness, necessity, and good faith” in collection and use of personal information, expressly state the purpose, methods, and scope of information collection,