Why don't you want to sell old phones?

△ A consumer consulted the mobile phone recycling business in the mobile phone trading market. Xinhua News Agency, Photo by Pei Xin

Huawei Mate50, iPhone14 ... Smartphones are constantly iterating, which has spawned a huge second -hand mobile phone market. Industry data shows that in 2021, my country's mobile phone social insurance has reached 1.856 billion units, and the amount and idle amount of waste mobile phones increase year by year. It is expected that the total idle amount during the "14th Five -Year Plan" will reach 6 billion units. At present, my country's waste mobile phones will be. The utilization rate of resource recovery is only about 4%.

Why don't people want to sell waste phones? "China News" reporter learned in the interview that in addition to the low recovery price, worrying that the leakage of privacy information has become an important reason why users are unwilling to sell waste mobile phones. Many users say that a lot of personal information is stored in mobile phones. Once this information is used by criminals, it will cause huge threats and losses to personal privacy, property and even personal security.

There are hidden safety hazards in mobile phone recycling

△ The data that has been deleted by the mobile phone still has the possibility of being restored, which is one of the main reasons for the recycling of waste mobile phones.

In recent years, smartphones have not only been communication tools, but have become increasingly becoming personal user information terminals. A large amount of personal information has been stored, such as contact information, financial payment account passwords, file photos, etc.

"The data that has been deleted on the mobile phone still has the possibility of being restored. This is one of the main reasons for the recycling of waste mobile phones to leak personal information." Hua Naying, a researcher at the content of the Institute of Cloud Computing and Big Data Research Institute of China Xintong Institute, told "China The reporter, the second -hand mobile recycling platform is mixed, and some informal second -hand recycling platforms have not effectively deleted user data. In addition to deleting and restoring the factory settings, users also need to carefully choose the trading platform.

The reporter learned in the interview that the traditional mobile phone recycling institution lacks technical personnel and operating specifications. Although it will also delete data information on the recycling mobile phone, the method is single and the standards are not high, resulting in incomplete data information deletion.

"The reason why this phenomenon occurs is first because the mobile phone recycling industry lacks strict standards and operating guidelines, and the recycling institution is unable to do a good job of mobile phone information. Low, it cannot meet the requirements for protecting personal information. In addition, after deleting mobile phone information, the recycling institution has not been detected and supervised by professional certification agencies after deleting mobile phone information, which is also an important reason for incomplete information to delete information. " Engineer Zhou Mingai analyzed.

"In the early years, the second -hand 3C industry has been criticized for the" second -hand recycling price, the lack of convenient recycling channels, the concerns of their privacy and being violated ', and the industry standardization and scale are also very low. If you do not get standardized processing, second -hand electronic equipment may become a 'hard -hit area' for information leakage. Some data recovery software can easily restore the data of electronic devices. Personal property loss caused by data leakage, reputation damage, assets and patent technology leakage leakage At the time, Zhang Qi, the person in charge of the Love Recycling Innovation Center, told the reporter of China Report, but in the past 10 years, the professional second -hand 3C recycling platform, including love recycling, has emerged. Gradually improved in fierceness.

With the rapid development of technology, electronic products such as mobile phones have accelerated the speed of update, and the professionalization level of the second -hand mobile phone industry is gradually increasing, and the scale of recycling the market has expanded rapidly. At the same time, the reporter of "China News" learned in the survey that there are some bad mobile digital recycling platforms, because of patent rights and shortage of funds. Security risks.

"The cause of the phenomenon of 'paddling' is mainly due to the lack of effective supervision of the mobile phone recycling market, which has led mobile phone recycling manufacturers to simply reduce the cost and workload for information removal. In addition It is also the reason why the phenomenon of the phenomenon of "streaming". "Zhou Mingai said that the current mobile phone recovery market in my country is not standardized, and regular channels and personal private channels are generally existed. The lack of compulsory policy requirements and lack of supervision.

The promulgation of the norm is the privacy and security "lock"

△ Data Map: A Digital Environmental Protection Service Station in Beijing, mobile phone recycling, fast repair of mobile phones, and batteries for mobile phones. Photo/Visual China

The recycling of second -hand mobile phones has leaked the leakage of personal privacy, and in recent years, it has gradually attracted great attention from all parties.

"When recycling second -hand mobile phones, computers, etc. When electronic products involving personal privacy, recycling operators should clean up user personal information in person, safeguard customer privacy, and shall not disclose customer information to third parties." Public comments on the website of the Beijing Market Supervision Bureau. Soliciting opinions will continue until June 20.

"The" Recycling Specifications for Waste Electronics Electronics Products "publicly solicited opinions, indicating that user personal information and privacy protection have been further valued by local governments. The implementation of this specification will definitely promote the implementation of other parts of the country. It is of great significance to do a good job in personal information. "Zhou Mingai said.

In Zhou Mingai's opinion, when recycling electronic products involving personal privacy, such as recycling old phones, computers, etc., it completely removes clean personal information, strictly implements the code of personal information protection operations, and can effectively promote the recovery of waste electronic products while maintaining the personal privacy of users. The next step of the comments draft should also strengthen the construction of the recovery traceability system, clarify the management of the entire life cycle of electronic products such as mobile phones, strengthen the sense of responsibility in all aspects, and ensure that personal information is safely protected. "The introduction of the" Recycling Specification of Waste Electrical Electronics Products "is a good news for regular recycling agencies, which not only regulates the recycling processing of waste electrical electronics products, but also helps promote the comprehensive utilization of resources and the development of circular economy." Zhang Qi told that Zhang Qi told that "China News" reporter.

Regarding the healthy and orderly development of the waste electronics recycling industry, Hana Ying further suggested that further detailed and specifications need to be further detailed for deletion and disposal, and effectively improve the comprehensive recycling processing capacity of the abandoned electronics electronics recycling industry.

Multiple measures to break the problem of recycling privacy security

△ Workers are assembled electronic products.

The launch of the "Specification of Waste Electrical Electronics Products" has taken an important step for the healthy and orderly development of the abandoned electrical electron recycling industry.

my country is a major manufacturing and consumer power of electronic products. Waste electronic products are tantamount to rich "minerals". If it can make full use of its resource value, it will greatly save industrial production costs, reduce environmental pollution, and promote green low -carbon transformation and development. However, only by solving the privacy and safety issues of waste electronic products recycling and the worries of consumers to relieve consumers can we truly allow electronic products to circulate smoothly.

Zhou Mingai pointed out that the personal privacy leak chaos caused by cracking second -hand mobile phone recycling is to accelerate the establishment of legislation and industry standards, strengthen the protection of personal information, leak the personal information of the second -hand mobile phone to the legal terms of information protection, increase the leakage personal information The cost of illegal illegal; the second is to improve the recycling system, standardize the recycling market, establish the qualification license system for the mobile phone recycling industry, clarify the requirements of the staff, technology, venue, and system specifications of mobile phone recycling institutions to improve the threshold for the industry entry; the third is to increase society Publicity and education, enhance the awareness and skills of the leakage of mobile phone recycling information from all walks of life, and enhance the skills of the masses in the whole society.

Zhang Qi believes that the second -hand trading platform should strengthen the technical investment in privacy removal, so that more users can experience advanced privacy removal technology; provide more convenient formal recycling channels for users to recycle with peace of mind; Promotion of related activities, popularizing privacy removal services, and reducing users' worries.

In Hana Ying's view, the comprehensive recycling processing capacity of recycling operators still needs to be improved. In addition, the operability and effectiveness deleted by mobile phone products themselves also need to form a unified norm. For electronic products that process personal information, including mobile phones, you should have the operability of deletion and the effectiveness of deletion.

- END -