The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress will review a draft on protecting online information on December 24th. Information-related crimes, such as fraud, libel and stealing other people's personal information, have grown increasingly common.
According to figures from the China Internet Network Information Center, of all the fraud cases, over 64-percent are related to false websites seeking to acquire users' personal information.
Nearly 14-thousand of these phishing websites have been found in the first half of 2012. 80-percent of them are financial securities and media communication websites. There are more than 500 million Internet users in the Chinese mainland. But the internet has been running for about 20 years without specific regulations.
Xinhua News says, with the Internet becoming a major vehicle of communication in China, the government needs to enact a special law for online administration, to bring order to its cyberspace.
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