Douyin and WeChat Reading violate users’ personal information (with original text)

Douyin and WeChat Reading violated user personal information (with original text) The court ruled that Douyin and WeChat Reading violated user personal information, and Douyin and Tencent responded

There has been new progress in the cases involving violation of personal privacy by TikTok and WeChat Reading. According to CCTV News, on July 30, the Beijing Internet Court made a first-instance judgment, determining that both Douyin and WeChat Reading had violated users' personal information. The two cases have also become typical cases after the promulgation of the Civil Code of the People's Republic of China, reflecting the Civil Code's protection of citizens' personal information rights and interests in the Internet era.

Tencent WeChat Reading Case Trial Image source: Beijing Internet Court WeChat Official Account

Subsequently, Tencent responded that it would respect the court's decision and that it had previously iteratively optimized the relevant functions and provided strong reminders for related social functions. Douyin said it would appeal the court's first-instance judgment.

Plaintiff's attorney:

The court supported the request to stop the infringement and apologize.

It is understood that in April last year, Xiong Dingzhong, the attorney for this case, was talking about mobile phone reading during a dinner with his colleagues. He accidentally discovered that the plaintiff Huang, who is also a lawyer, followed hundreds of WeChat friends on WeChat reading, but she herself had never performed any related operations. Huang was very shocked at the time, and she did not want her private reading material to be known to others.