on Friday July 22, 2022 @06:00AM from the rule-breakers dept. The Cyberspace Administration of China has fined ride-sharing company DiDi global $1.2 billion for more than 64 billion illegal acts of data collection that it says were carried out maliciously and threatened national security. The Register reports: The Administration enumerated DiDi's indiscretions as follows: - 53.976 billion pieces of information indicating travellers' intentions were analyzed without informing passengers; - 8.323 billion pieces of information were accessed from users' clipboards and lists of apps; - 1.538 billion pieces of information about the cities in which users live were analyzed without permission;...