Cyberspace Administration of China: “Youth Mode” will be upgraded to “Minor Mode”

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According to the WeChat official account of the Cyberspace Administration of China, in order to further improve the efficiency of the model, based on the new situation and new requirements of the online protection of minors, the Cyberspace Administration of China has researched and drafted the “Guidelines for the Construction of the Mobile Internet Minor Model (Draft for Comment)” (hereinafter “Draft for Opinions” for short), will comprehensively upgrade the “teenager mode” to “minor mode”, promote the coverage of the mode from APP to mobile smart terminals and application stores, and realize the three-party linkage of software and hardware, so that users can enter the mode with one key. Create a safe and healthy online environment for minors.

The opinion draft proposes that the entry setting of the minor model should ensure the principle of simplicity. Users can enter the underage mode through at least 3 ways, such as power-on reminder, desktop icon, and system settings. The mode entrance should be in a fixed location, convenient and easy to find, and satisfy parents and minor users to enter or switch with one button. When a user logs in to the minor mode for the first time, the smart mobile terminal should provide multiple ways for the user to choose at the entrance, such as setting birthday, selecting age or age range, and allowing multiple minor information to be set. When exiting the minor mode, parents need to verify and agree. Based on the existing mobile smart terminal authentication mechanism, parents can choose password, fingerprint, face and other recognition methods for single or combined verification.

The following is the full text of the draft for comments:

Guidelines for the Construction of Mobile Internet Minor Models

(Draft for comments)

1. Purpose Basis

In order to better play the positive role of the Internet, create a good network environment, prevent and intervene in the problem of minors’ Internet addiction, and guide minors to form good habits of using the Internet, in accordance with the “Network Security Law of the People’s Republic of China” and “Personal Information Protection of the People’s Republic of China” Law, “Law of the People’s Republic of China on the Protection of Minors” and other laws, administrative regulations, as well as relevant provisions on the online protection of minors, formulate this guide.

2. Scope of application

This guideline stipulates the basic requirements that all kinds of mobile smart terminals, mobile Internet applications (hereinafter referred to as “applications”), and mobile Internet application distribution service platforms (hereinafter referred to as “application distribution platforms”) should meet for minors , functional requirements, and management requirements, applicable to the development and application of the minor model by relevant entities such as mobile smart terminal providers, application program providers, and application program distribution platform providers.

3. General Specifications

(1) Three-party linkage

Linkage should be realized between mobile smart terminals, applications and application distribution platforms:

1. The minor mode should have an automatic switching function. After the mobile smart terminal starts the minor mode with one key, the application and the application distribution platform should automatically switch to the minor mode interface; after the mobile smart terminal exits the minor mode, the application and the application distribution platform should automatically switch to the minor mode interface; Switch to normal mode interface.

2. The minor mode should support parents or minor users to make unified settings on multiple mobile smart terminals (including multiple mobile smart terminals of the same type or different types from the same manufacturer) through their accounts. By logging in to a unified account, the user automatically copies the existing configurations of other mobile smart terminals under the account to the local and starts them.

3. Necessary interfaces and data sharing should be provided between mobile smart terminals, applications, and application distribution platforms to meet the functions of anti-addiction reminders for minors, parental supervision and management, etc.

(2) Easy to use

1. In order to protect the rights and interests of minors’ personal information, parents are encouraged to activate the minor mode for minors, and mobile smart terminals, applications, and application distribution platforms should provide convenient functions and services for parents to manage, so that parents can perform guardianship duties, Guide minors to form good surfing habits.

2. Smart mobile terminals, applications, and application distribution platforms should adhere to the principle of being most beneficial to minors, provide functions such as effectively identifying illegal information and information that may affect the physical and mental health of minors, preventing minors from becoming addicted to the Internet, and strengthening Network Protection for Minors.

3. Mobile smart terminals, applications, and application distribution platforms should establish convenient, reasonable, and effective channels for complaints and reports under the minor model, and promptly accept and handle complaints and reports involving minors.

(3) Age classification principle

Smart mobile terminals, applications, and application distribution platforms should provide users of different ages with information and services suitable for their physical and mental development by evaluating product types, content, and functions based on the physical and mental development characteristics of minors at different ages. . The age classification design is divided according to the following five age intervals:

1. Under 3 years old;

2. Over 3 years old but under 8 years old;

3. Over 8 years old but under 12 years old;

4. Over 12 years old but under 16 years old;

5. Over 16 years old but under 18 years old.

4. Requirements for the minor model of mobile smart terminals

(1) Basic requirements

1. Minor mode entrance

The entry setting of the minor mode should ensure the principle of simplicity. Users can enter the underage mode through at least 3 ways, such as power-on reminder, desktop icon, and system settings. The mode entrance should be in a fixed location, convenient and easy to find, and satisfy parents and minor users to enter or switch with one button.

When a user logs in to the minor mode for the first time, the smart mobile terminal should provide multiple ways for the user to choose at the entrance, such as setting birthday, selecting age or age range, and allowing multiple minor information to be set.

The user can choose not to need the minor mode at the first boot or system settings, and the system will no longer show relevant reminders.

2. Minor mode exit

When exiting the minor mode, parents need to verify and agree. Based on the existing mobile smart terminal authentication mechanism, parents can choose password, fingerprint, face and other recognition methods for single or combined verification.

(2) Management of usage time

1. Smart mobile terminals should provide differentiated usage time management services for minor users of different age groups. When the daily use time limit is exceeded, the mobile smart terminal should automatically close other applications except for specific necessary applications and parent-defined exempt applications:

(1) In the minor mode for users under the age of 8, the mobile smart terminal should support the default total use time of no more than 40 minutes, and provide parents with exemption operations;

(2) In the minor mode for users over the age of 8 but under the age of 16, the mobile smart terminal should support the default total use time of no more than 1 hour, and provide parents with exemption operations;

(3) In the minor mode for users over the age of 16 but under the age of 18, the mobile smart terminal should support the default total use time of no more than 2 hours, and provide parents with exemption operations;

(4) In the minor mode, when the minor user continuously uses the mobile smart terminal for more than 30 minutes, the mobile smart terminal should issue a rest reminder;

(5) In the minor mode, mobile smart terminals are prohibited from providing services to minors from 22:00 to 6:00 the next day;

(6) The following applications and businesses are not subject to the above usage duration and time period restrictions:

①Emergency category: products and services used to protect the personal safety of minors, including emergency call services and applications customized by mobile smart terminals to protect the personal safety of minors;

②Education: products and services that provide educational services such as online courses for minors that have been filed with relevant competent authorities;

③Tools suitable for minors: products and services that are certified by the application distribution platform and suitable for the physical and mental development of minors, such as some image processing, calculation and measurement applications, etc.;

④Apps that can be exempted from parental custom settings.

2. In the minor mode of the mobile smart terminal, the time control function used by parents should at least meet the following functions:

(1) Set the usage time of the mobile smart terminal;

(2) Set the usage time period of the mobile smart terminal, and set one or more usage time periods according to specific needs;

(3) Set the usage time of the specified application;

(4) Minors are prohibited from modifying the system date and time of mobile smart terminals.

(3) Anti-bypass requirements

1. Smart mobile terminals should have anti-bypass functions. After entering the underage mode, the mobile smart terminal should perform operations such as exiting the underage mode or restoring factory settings after the parent’s verification and confirmation.

2. Smart mobile terminals with minor mode enabled shall ensure that the icons providing minor mode service functions remain on the desktop level-1 page at all times, and are not uninstalled, frozen, or hidden, and the process is not forcibly terminated.

3. In the minor mode, if the developer mode needs to be activated, it should be verified and confirmed by the parents.

(4) Supplementary requirements

1. Due to the immature physical and psychological development of minors such as vision and hearing, mobile smart terminals are encouraged to use technical means to reduce or eliminate possible harm to minors in the process of using mobile smart terminals.

2. The smart mobile terminal shall provide services for minor users to urgently send location and make calls to the associated parent user terminal.

3. When children’s smart watches, early education machines, smart speakers and other children’s smart devices, and virtual reality/augmented reality (VR/AR) wearable devices provide services for minors, they shall abide by the relevant provisions of this regulation to ensure that information The content is safe and controllable to prevent minors from becoming addicted to the Internet or contacting information that may affect their physical and mental health.

4. The youth mode in the existing application should be retained in the normal mode of the smart mobile terminal, and should be upgraded in accordance with the relevant requirements of this guideline, so as to provide security protection for minors to use the existing application in the normal mode.

5. Requirements for the Minor Mode of Mobile Internet Applications

(1) Basic requirements

Under the minor mode, mobile Internet information service providers should provide age-based content services for minors and create exclusive content pools. Age-appropriate recommendations are as follows:

1. Under 3 years old: recommend children’s songs, enlightenment education and other parent-child companionship programs, and it is recommended to focus on audio;

2. Over 3 years old but under 8 years old: recommend enlightenment education, interest literacy, general education and other program content;

3. Over 8 years old but under 12 years old: recommend general education, popular science knowledge, life skills, entertaining content with positive guiding significance, and news information suitable for the cognitive ability of this age group;

4. Over 12 years old but under 16 years old: recommend general education, subject education, knowledge popularization, life skills, entertaining content with positive guiding significance, and news information suitable for the cognitive ability of this age group.

5. Over 16 years old but under 18 years old: recommend information that is suitable for the cognitive ability of this age group and healthy.

Encourage mobile Internet information service providers to make age-appropriate recommendations for content in the content pool for minors based on age classification requirements.

(2) Content security requirements

Under the minor mode, mobile Internet information service providers should fulfill their main responsibilities to ensure the security of information content that minors have access to:

1. Under the minor mode, mobile Internet information service providers should actively carry out the construction of minor content pools. Produce, copy, publish, and disseminate to promote socialist core values, advanced socialist culture, revolutionary culture, and excellent traditional Chinese culture, to forge a sense of the Chinese nation’s community, to cultivate minors’ family and country feelings and good morals, and to guide minors to develop good Network information such as living habits and behavior habits, to create a clear network space and a good network ecology that are conducive to the healthy growth of minors.

2. Mobile Internet information service providers should fulfill their main responsibilities, and under the minor mode, there should be no form of providing minor users with related products and services that induce their addiction or are detrimental to their physical and mental health:

(1) It is forbidden to use the Internet to produce, copy, publish, and disseminate information containing content that endangers the physical and mental health of minors, and it is prohibited to send information to minors that contains content that is harmful or may affect the physical and mental health of minors;

(2) It is forbidden to produce, copy, publish, disseminate or possess obscene and pornographic online information about minors, and it is forbidden to lure or force minors to produce, copy, publish, and disseminate text, pictures, audio and video that may expose their personal privacy ;

(3) It is forbidden to produce, copy, publish, and disseminate information that may cause or induce minors to imitate unsafe behaviors, implement behaviors that violate social morality, generate bad emotions, and develop bad habits that may affect the physical and mental health of minors.

(3) Functional restriction requirements

Under the minor mode, mobile Internet information service providers should restrict minor users from using products and services that may endanger their physical and mental health:

1. Internet service providers such as live webcasting, online audio and video, and online social networking should set up corresponding time management, authority management, consumption management and other functions for minors to use their services.

2. Network service providers such as live webcasting, network audio and video, and social networking services shall take measures to reasonably limit minors’ single consumption amount and single-day cumulative consumption amount in using network products and services, and shall not provide minors with Paid services that do not conform to their civil capacity.

3. Under the minors mode, online communities, groups, and topics with themes of fundraising for aid, voting for rankings, and ratings for quantity control are not allowed to be set up, and pan-entertainment functions and content must not be used to induce minors to become addicted to the Internet.

4. Anti-addiction requirements for online games should comply with relevant management regulations.

5. Online education network products and services must not insert links to online games, and must not push advertisements and other information that is not related to teaching.

6. Algorithm recommendation service providers shall not push information to minors that may cause minors to imitate unsafe behaviors and behaviors that violate social morality, induce minors’ bad habits, etc., that may affect the physical and mental health of minors, and shall not use algorithm recommendation services Inducing minors to become addicted to the Internet.

7. Encourage app developers to abide by relevant laws and regulations, develop apps that adapt to the laws and characteristics of minors’ physical and mental health development, and help minors develop good network literacy.

(4) Social management requirements

1. The app should provide minors and parents with social management permissions, allow to follow or block specific users, and limit the scope of disclosure of specific information.

2. Social networking applications should not provide external links in the minor mode that are prone to Internet addiction or expose minors to Internet information that is not conducive to their physical and mental health.

3. For applications other than instant messaging tools, the private message function of strangers should be turned off in the minor mode.

6. Requirements for the minor mode of the mobile Internet application distribution service platform

(1) Basic requirements

1. The application distribution platform shall provide a special application area for minors to facilitate minors to obtain products or services on the platform that are beneficial to physical and mental health;

2. The application distribution platform should mark the recommended age of the application according to the physical and mental characteristics and cognitive level of minors of different age groups, and provide applications suitable for minors of different age groups.

(2) Requirements for the construction of special areas for minors

The application distribution platform should strengthen the construction of the minor area according to the relevant management requirements:

1. Application providers should adhere to the principle of being most beneficial to minors, pay attention to the healthy growth of minors, fulfill various obligations of minors’ online protection, strictly implement the requirements for real-name registration and login of minors’ user accounts, and must not use any Provide minor users with related products and services that induce their addiction.

2. Encourage education, puzzles, popular science, reading, music, sports and other applications that are beneficial to the physical and mental health of minors to be put on the shelves in the minor area.

3. Apps that are explicitly prohibited by the relevant departments for the characteristics of each age group shall not be put on the shelves of the app distribution platform under the minor mode.

(3) Download security

Application distribution platforms should review and dispose of various network applications and services that access minors in accordance with relevant laws and regulations:

1. Clarify the age group of underage users that the product is suitable for, and provide prominent reminders on the user download, registration, and login interfaces.

2. The application distribution platform should provide differentiated download services for minor users according to the age characteristics of minors, and ensure that parents can review or exempt the download and installation of applications under the minor mode:

(1) When minor users under the age of 12 download and install applications in the minor area, they must obtain the consent of their parents; parents have certain exemption rights and allow minors to download applications outside the minor area;

(2) Minor users over the age of 12 but under the age of 16 can download and install applications in the minor area by themselves, and parents have certain exemption rights to allow minors to download applications outside the minor area.

3. It is forbidden to download applications through external links, except those approved by parents and exempted.

4. App distribution platforms should establish relevant reporting mechanisms to strengthen users’ supervision of information content and services in the minor model, and remove relevant apps from the shelves if necessary in accordance with relevant management requirements.

Seven, parent management

(1) Basic requirements

Under the minor mode, mobile smart terminals, applications, and application distribution platforms should provide parents with management rights to ensure that parents can manage the daily and emergency status of designated minor users, and better supervise and guide minor users to go online Behavior:

1. Mobile smart terminals, applications, and application distribution platforms should provide parents with management authority over the duration of use of minors, receiving information services, downloading and installing applications, etc., so as to satisfy parents’ supervision, exemption and Review requirements.

2. The mobile smart terminal should provide at least one family account for the minor’s account to bind as the parent’s account. This account can be used by parents and minors on the same terminal or on different terminals, and can be associated with applications and application distribution platforms at the same time. .

(2) Parents’ management of the usage time of minors’ mobile smart terminals

Mobile smart terminals and applications should provide minors and their parents with anti-addiction reminders, allowing parents to supervise and guide minors’ use of mobile smart terminals:

1. Smart mobile terminals should regularly provide parents with an overview report on the duration of use of minor users in the minor mode, the duration of use of various applications, and the duration of surfing the Internet, to assist parents in monitoring the online behavior of minors.

2. When the usage time of a minor user exceeds the time limit suggested by this regulation, the minor user can send an exemption application to the associated parent user.

(3) Parents’ management of information service content for minors

Parents can use the associated account to provide review and exemption functions for information content in the minor mode:

1. Parents can exempt the information of the non-exclusive content pool and add it to the content pool of designated minor users.

2. Encourage parents to mark and make suggestions on the content of the non-exclusive content pool, so as to provide a basis for the platform to enrich the construction of the exclusive content pool.

(4) Parents’ management of the use of minors’ apps

Parents can use the associated account to review application downloads under minor mode, and exempt or prohibit users from downloading and installing specific applications. include:

1. Open permissions that are always exempt for specific applications, such as opening long-term use permissions for minors to auxiliary educational applications.

2. Open time-limited usage permissions for specific applications, such as allowing tool applications that are suitable for minors’ physical and mental development to be used within a specific period of time as needed.

3. Set specific applications and functions to always be prohibited from being used. During this period, relevant applications must not pop up notifications and must not be invoked for use.

4. Apps and services that are expressly prohibited by relevant laws and regulations from being used by minors shall not be exempted.

8. Management Requirements

(1) Smart mobile terminals, applications, and application distribution platforms should actively cooperate with the supervision and inspection carried out by relevant management departments, and provide necessary technical and data support and assistance.

(2) Mobile smart terminals, applications, and application distribution platforms that provide services to minor users should regularly conduct assessments of the impact of minors’ network protection.

(3) Mobile smart terminals, applications, and application distribution platforms that provide services to minor users should establish necessary emergency response mechanisms to ensure that emergency services that protect the personal safety of minor users are not blocked.

(4) Mobile Internet information service providers should provide services in accordance with relevant laws and regulations under the minor mode, and should not collect user data beyond the scope.

Appendix Terms and Definitions

(1) Minor mode

The minor mode mentioned in this “Guide” refers to the network protection that adapts to the laws and characteristics of minors’ physical and mental health development, is specially designed for minors, and covers mobile smart terminals, mobile Internet applications, and mobile Internet application distribution platforms. model.

(2) Smart mobile terminal

Smart mobile terminals refer to mobile terminal products that are connected to the public mobile communication network, have an operating system, and can be installed, run, and uninstalled by users themselves, including smart phones, tablets, children’s smart watches, early education machines and other smart terminals and smart wearables equipment.

(3) Mobile Internet applications

Mobile Internet applications refer to software that provides users with services such as text, picture, audio, video and other information production, reproduction, release, and dissemination through applications.

(4) Mobile Internet application distribution service platform

Mobile Internet application distribution service platform refers to a platform that provides services such as application publishing, downloading, and dynamic loading through the Internet, including application stores, application centers, and Internet applet platforms.

Source: China Netcom

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