Data privacy for internet users is a topic of concern the world
over, with the P.R.C. being no exception. Internet information
service providers (hereinafter also referred to as
"IISPs"), such as commercial websites,
regularly collect information from online visitors, sometimes with
full knowledge of the visitors and sometimes unknown to the
visitors. In addition, IISPs have been known to maliciously
introduce software incompatible with the user's existing
software, install certain software such as "spyware" onto
users' computers/mobile devices and/or change users'
browser configurations without permission, and it goes without
saying that "pop up ads" are an ongoing online
annoyance. As online users in the P.R.C. look for protections
from such unwanted invasions of their privacy and restrictions upon
user control of their online experience, the recently released
"Several Provisions on Regulating the Market Order for
Internet Information Services" (hereinafter referred
