Industrial Bank APP monitor user heart rate and steps?Response said that it is used for the original of the walking activity 2022-08-09

Recently, the Shanghai Consumer Protection Commission issued a statement that consumers reported that the APP of the Industrial Bank would monitor the heart rate and steps of users, causing attention. On August 9, a reporter from Nandu asked the Promotion Bank to verify the matter. Customer service staff said that the permissions were not opened by default. Only when the user intends to participate in the "" walking "and other activities launched by the bank, can frame. If the user does not agree to open it, it will not affect the use of other functions of mobile phone banks.

Nandu reporters have noticed that according to the results of the Shanghai Consumer Protection Commission's measurement, the Android system vivo app stores that the Industrial Bank APP (version 5.0.54) needs to obtain 21 items, including "access to the body sensor (such as heart rate monitor)", and "heart rate monitor)", and "heart rate monitor)", and "heart rate monitor)", "" The interpretation of this permissions is "the data collected by the sensor collected by this application software to monitor your physical condition, such as your heart rate." At the same time, the Industrial Bank APP also needs to obtain "access to the user's operation information". The explanation of this permission is "allowing the application to identify physical activity, detect the number of user steps or the user's physical activity (such as walking, cycling or car)." In addition, the WeChat team of the Shanghai Consumer Protection Commission on the Android System Xiaomi Store Xingye Bank APP (version 5.0.54) and Apple App Store Xingye Bank APP (version 5.0.53) also found "Health and Fitness" data associated with consumer identity.

The Shanghai Municipal Consumer Protection Commission said that if consumers do not want to allow Xingye Bank APP to access related data, the authorization can be prohibited by manually. Although the prohibition of access does not affect the online financial services of the Industrial Bank APP, it is still hoped that the Industrial Bank can clearly and clearly tell consumers to ask for the purpose of consumers to eliminate consumers' health status and fitness activity data.

On August 9, in response to this matter, the customer service staff of the Industrial Bank told Nandu reporters that in order to provide better services, the bank plans to carry out the "walking" activity. Provide users with certain rewards. At present, the activity has not been carried out, and the user's permission application can be seen in order to facilitate that users can directly use the step function when they participate in similar activities in the future. But this does not mean that Industrial Bank has collected relevant authority information.

The customer service of the Industrial Bank also stated that if the "walking" event was launched in the future, the Industrial Bank would declare the use scenario and reasons alone when applying for authority to the user. When the user did not authorize, the bank would not open the relevant authority by default. If the user does not agree to open the relevant authority, it will not affect the use of other functions of mobile banking. Nandu reporter Fang Shiqi

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