Kohler Bathroom Was Fined RMB 500,000 For Installing 565 Kamera rekonesans figi nan 222 Chinese Shops

Kohler Bathroom Was Fined RMB 500,000 For Installing 565 Kamera rekonesans figi nan 222 Chinese Shops

According to the website of the Shanghai Municipal Market Supervision Administration, Kohler (Lachin) Envestisman Co., Ltd. was recently fined RMB 500,000 for installing camera equipment to capture face information in its shops without consumers’ konsantman ant fevriye 2020 ak mas 2021. This Kohler’s violated the relevant provisions of the Consumer Rights Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China and was fined 500,000 RMB by the Shanghai Jing’an District Market Supervision Administration and ordered to make corrections.

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Dapre desizyon sanksyon administratif lèt No. [2021] 062021000787, sou 15 Mache 2021, CCTV yo “315” evening gala reported that the company had violated the law by collecting facial information. On 17 Mache, the Shanghai Municipal Administration of Market Supervision opened a case for investigation. It was found that the person concerned had allegedly captured consumers’ fè fas enfòmasyon san konsantman yo. In view of the large amount of information suspected to be criminal, the Bureau transferred the case to the District Public Security Bureau on 20 Avril. Ka a te fèmen epi depoze.

On 22 June, Shanghai Minisipal Biwo Sipèvizyon Mache a te resevwa yon Avi ki pa Depoze nan men Biwo Sekirite Piblik Distrik Jing'an. The Shanghai Municipal Administration of Market Supervision reopened the case on 23 June and continued to investigate the case. It was found that the party concerned entered into a system framework contract with Suzhou Wandianpai Network Technology Company Limited (“Wandianpai”) sou 25 Fevriye 2020. They agreed that Wandian Palm would supply camera equipment to the parties, including intelligent supervisory servers, monitoring hard drives, member identification perception devices, and other products and software systems. Apre kontra a te siyen, it was installed by WandianPal in the subject dealer’s shops.

Dapre lèt desizyon an, as of 15 Mache 2021, 565 units of camera equipment supplied by Wandianpaw had been installed in 222 Kohler shops nationwide. The party paid RMB 991,674 to Wandian Palm for the total cost of the orders purchased.

The camera devices automatically captured the face information of the people who visited the shops and uploaded the images of the collected face information to the Ali cloud server rented by WandianPal through a software system, and then screened out shop employees and customers who repeatedly entered the shops through an algorithm calculation to achieve de-duplication. The parties used this to accurately count customer traffic and facilitate the development of sales policies. Sepandan, pati yo pa t 'jwenn konsantman eksprime oswa otorize konsomatè yo lè yo itilize ekipman kamera ki anwo yo pou kolekte enfòmasyon figi yo.

Kòm nan 15 Mache 2021, the parties concerned had captured a total of 2202264 moso nan enfòmasyon figi.

The installation of camera equipment in the shops to capture face information without the consent of consumers between February 2020 ak mas 2021 violated Article 29(1) nan Lwa Repiblik Pèp la nan Lachin sou Pwoteksyon Dwa Konsomatè ak Enterè, which states: “Operators shall follow the principles of legality, propriety, and necessity in collecting and using consumers’ enfòmasyon pèsonèl, and shall expressly state the purpose, manner, and scope of collecting and using the information. The purpose, manner, and scope of the collection and use of information shall be clearly stated and agreed upon by the consumer. The operator shall disclose the rules of collection and use of consumers’ enfòmasyon pèsonèl, and shall not collect or use information in violation of the provisions of laws and regulations and the agreement between the parties.” This constitutes an offense for an operator to collect personal information without the consent of the consumer.

Aksyon ilegal nan kolekte konsomatè yo’ CCTV te rapòte enfòmasyon pèsonèl yo san konsantman yo “315” pati aswè, causing a bad social impact and a huge amount of information collected. An akò ak atik 56(1)(9) nan Lwa Repiblik Pèp la nan Lachin sou Pwoteksyon Dwa Konsomatè ak Enterè, the Shanghai Jing’an District Market Supervision Bureau decided to order the party to rectify the illegal act and to fine the party RMB 500,000. The date of the administrative penalty decision is 26 Jiyè 2021.