The EU regulations take effect, millet Yeelight intelligent lighting to suspend part of the service in Europe

Because the company has burst secretly collect user data to make users be loss or distress, leading to the EU to halt new cases. Is considered the data privacy law "the history of the most severe general Data Protection Ordinance" (GDPR) came into force in the EU in May 25th. Some of the company's business affected, began to stop providing services to the EU users, intelligent lighting manufacturers Millet's Yeelight is no exception.

According to the official website of Yeelight, Yeelight is an intelligent lighting brand, in 2014 to join millet ecological chain.

Yeelight in the program to inform the user of its services in the EU will no longer be available. The specific contents are as follows: "due to the provisions of GDPR, we will not be able to provide you with the service. If you have any news about privacy policy, please contact us by email."

According to EU regulations in GDPR, organizations must approach to personal data transparency. In violation of the provisions of the enterprise, the most likely to face its annual revenue of 4% fine. This has caused some anxiety in the industry, many enterprises want to seek advice to consultants, business partners and regulators, and even technology companies choose to stop providing services for the residents.

For this reason, there are users of Yeelight for this collection of user privacy data doubt. Subsequently, Yeelight CEO Jiang Zhaoning in reply to deny this behavior, and that this is just a temporary line, compliance will continue on the line.

His reply said: "we do not retain user privacy data, this is a moral issue, for the long-term operation of the enterprise, which is the basic point, the EU GDPR requirements is very broad, all non EU API calls and data access are prohibited, as Chinese manufacturers, the EU server not China Communication, needs a large number of software development and testing, in order to avoid possible problems, temporarily offline, EU compliance will continue to line."

Soon after, Yeelight official responded, according to the latest regulations, Yeelight is a software upgrade, is expected to be completed within a week. They also said, Yeelight resolutely protect user privacy and data security, in any countries and regions, will comply with the requirements of local laws and regulations, make the greatest efforts to protect the privacy of data users are not illegal collection or abuse. Thank you for your attention and understanding of Yeelight.

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