Company: FENG
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0000950170-25-055759
Chunk: 63

Company: Phoenix New Media Ltd
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 4
Chunk 63
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 Internet Applications Information Services, which became effect on August 1, 2016, to further strengthen administration over mobile Internet applications information services. Pursuant to these provisions, owners or operators of mobile Internet applications that provide information services shall fulfill their information security management responsibilities strictly and perform their obligations listed as below:

• certify the identification information of registered users including their mobile telephone number based information under the principle of a real name backstage, and a freely-chosen name on stage;

• establish and perfect the mechanism for protecting users’ information, and follow the principle of legality, rightfulness and necessity, indicate expressly the purpose, method and scope of collection and use and obtain the consents of users while collecting and using users’ personal information;

• establish and perfect the mechanism for verifying and managing information contents, and in terms of any information content released that violates laws or regulations, take such measures as warning, restricting functions, suspending updates and closing accounts as the case may be, keep relevant records and report the same to relevant competent departments;

• safeguard users’ right to know and to make choices when users are installing or using such applications, and refrain from starting such functions as collecting the information of users’ location, accessing users’ contacts, turning on users’ camera and recording sound, or any other function irrelevant to the services, nor forcefully install any other irrelevant application, for so long as users are not notified of the same clearly and do not give their consent;

• respect and protect intellectual property and refrain from producing or releasing any application that infringes others’ intellectual property; and

• record the users’ log information and keep the same for 60 days.

On June 14, 2022, the CAC issued a revised version of the Administrative Provisions on Mobile Internet Application Information Services (the “ APP Provisions”), which basically reflects the regulatory development since 2016 and further emphasizes that mobile internet app providers shall comply with the relevant provisions on the scope of necessary personal information when engaging in personal information processing activities. According to the APP Provisions, mobile internet app providers shall not compel users to agree to non-essential personal information collection out of any reason and are prohibited from banning users from their basic functional services due to the users’ refusal of providing non-essential personal information.

On November 7, 2016, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress promulgated theCybersecurity Law to preserve cyberspace security and order. Pursuant toCybersecurity Law, network operators shall strictly keep confidential users’ personal information that they