Kohler Bathroom Was Fined RMB 500,000 For Installing 565 Kameras għar-rikonoxximent tal-wiċċ In 222 Chinese Shops

Kohler Bathroom Was Fined RMB 500,000 For Installing 565 Kameras għar-rikonoxximent tal-wiċċ In 222 Chinese Shops

According to the website of the Shanghai Municipal Market Supervision Administration, Kohler (Iċ-Ċina) Investiment Co., Ltd. was recently fined RMB 500,000 for installing camera equipment to capture face information in its shops without consumers’ kunsens bejn Frar 2020 u Marzu 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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Skont id-deċiżjoni ta’ penali amministrattiva ittra Nru. [2021] 062021000787, on 15 Marzu 2021, CCTV’s “315” evening gala reported that the company had violated the law by collecting facial information. On 17 Marzu, the Shanghai Municipal Administration of Market Supervision opened a case for investigation. It was found that the person concerned had allegedly captured consumers’ jiffaċċjaw informazzjoni mingħajr il-kunsens tagħhom. 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 April. Il-każ ingħalaq u ġie ppreżentat.

On 22 Ġunju, l-Uffiċċju Muniċipali ta 'Shanghai tas-Superviżjoni tas-Suq irċieva Avviż ta' Non-Filing mill-Uffiċċju tas-Sigurtà Pubblika tad-Distrett ta '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”) on 25 Frar 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. Wara li l-kuntratt ġie ffirmat, it was installed by WandianPal in the subject dealer’s shops.

Skont l-ittra tad-deċiżjoni, as of 15 Marzu 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. Madankollu, il-partijiet ma kisbux il-kunsens espress jew awtorizzat tal-konsumaturi meta użaw it-tagħmir tal-kamera t'hawn fuq biex jiġbru l-informazzjoni tal-wiċċ tagħhom.

Minn 15 Marzu 2021, the parties concerned had captured a total of 2202264 biċċiet ta 'informazzjoni tal-wiċċ.

The installation of camera equipment in the shops to capture face information without the consent of consumers between February 2020 u Marzu 2021 violated Article 29(1) tal-Liġi tar-Repubblika Popolari taċ-Ċina dwar il-Ħarsien tad-Drittijiet u l-Interessi tal-Konsumatur, which states: “Operators shall follow the principles of legality, propriety, and necessity in collecting and using consumers’ informazzjoni personali, 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’ informazzjoni personali, 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.

L-att illegali tal-ġbir tal-konsumaturi’ informazzjoni personali mingħajr il-kunsens tagħhom ġiet irrappurtata minn CCTV’s “315” festa filgħaxija, causing a bad social impact and a huge amount of information collected. Skond l-Artikolu 56(1)(9) tal-Liġi tar-Repubblika Popolari taċ-Ċina dwar il-Ħarsien tad-Drittijiet u l-Interessi tal-Konsumatur, 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 Lulju 2021.