Personal information needs better protection

POLICE IN WENZHOU, East China's Zhejiang province, recently busted a gang selling photographs of people holding their own ID cards in hand. Fawan.com comments:

The illegal chain involved at least 11 suspects. But by the time the police hunted them down, they had sold more than 1.1 million photos of people holding their own ID cards. Which has put all the victims at great risk, especially of being targeted by frauds.

Reports said a primary source of the photos were smartphone apps. In a survey conducted by China Consumers' Association last month, 85.2 percent of the respondents said they had experienced personal information disclosure through apps, and feared their personal information could be used by frauds.