Over 90% of mobile apps gained permission to access users' private information in the first half of 2018, according to a report recently released by Tencent's Research Center on Society and the Data Center of China Internet (DCCI).

腾讯社会研究中心和DCCI互联网数据研究中心近日发布的一份报告显示，2018年上半年，超9成手机应用获取用户隐私信息权限。

Statistics indicate that about 99.9% of Android apps obtained private information from their users in the first six months of this year. The figure for iOS apps also rose dramatically from 69.3% in the first half of 2017 to 93.8%.

数据显示，今年上半年，约99.9%的安卓应用获取用户隐私信息，iOS应用的这一比例也从去年上半年的69.3%激增至93.8%。

Of them, game apps saw the biggest increase in gaining access to users' private data, from 43.1% in the second half of last year to 88.9% in the first half of 2018.

其中，游戏类应用获取用户隐私数据权限的比例增幅最大，由2017年下半年的43.1%增至2018年上半年的88.9%。

Location information was required by 89.3% of apps in the first half of 2017, and the figure saw an increase to 95.9% in the first six months of this year, said Hu Yanping, founder¹ of DCCI, adding that apps requiring access to users' contact data also climbed from 43.7% to 61.2% during the same period.

DCCI互联网数据研究中心创始人胡延平表示，要求读取位置信息的应用占比由2017上半年的89.3%增至2018年上半年的95.9%，而同期要求获取用户联系人数据权限的应用占比也从43.7%增长至61.2%。

Although relevant laws and regulations have been introduced in China, many apps are still suspected of overusing their authorization² to collect user data, said Zhou Ye, senior mobile security researcher at 360 Vulpecker Team.

360威派克团队高级移动安全研究员周烨表示，尽管国家相关法律法规已经出台，但许多应用仍有滥用权限、收集用户数据的嫌疑。

Huang Xiaolin, a director of Tencent, also stressed that internet companies should self-discipline when it comes to the collection of information, usage of information and notification to the users.

腾讯董事黄晓林也强调，互联网公司在收集信息、使用信息和通知用户时应该自律。