According toTechWire Asia, China's National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Teamsaid thatapp developers need tore-evaluatethe amount of data collected from their users. In its half-yearly report, the agency identified a significant number of mobile apps that need to rectify the issue of over-collection, and called for a national response to address the problem, as the country's 800 million mobile users migrate to online platforms for their shopping needs. According toIAPP, the report of the agency states that 'a large number of apps exhibit abnormalbehaviour, such as detecting other apps or reading and writing user device files, posing a potential security threat to the user's information security'.