China on Sunday ordered app stores to take away ride-hailing large Didi Chuxing from their listings, citing severe violations of legal guidelines across the assortment and use of private consumer information.

The announcement was made by the Cyberspace Administration of China, the nation’s our on-line world regulator, which on Friday introduced that it was conducting a cybersecurity review of the corporate and required it to cease registering new customers. In the Sunday announcement, the regulator additionally ordered Didi to comply with authorized necessities and rectify present issues to guard the safety of customers’ private data, in keeping with a Google translation of the assertion on the federal government’s web site.

Didi responded to the choice on its Weibo account, basically China’s equal of Twitter, on Sunday and stated it might work to rectify the problems recognized by the regulator, in keeping with a translation. It said that customers, together with passengers and drivers, who had already downloaded the Didi app would have the ability to use it usually throughout this course of.

“Didi resolutely implements the relevant requirements of the relevant state departments, and has suspended new user registration on July 3, and the Didi Travel App will be removed from the shelves for rectification in strict accordance with the requirements of the relevant departments,” the corporate stated.

On Friday, in an announcement to the Wall Street Journal, Didi stated it might absolutely cooperate with the federal government’s cybersecurity evaluate and would conduct a “comprehensive examination of cybersecurity risks.” It pledged to constantly enhance its cybersecurity techniques and know-how capacities.

The Cyberspace Administration of China said its review of Didi aimed to stop dangers associated to nationwide information safety.

Nonetheless, China might produce other causes for cracking down on Didi. Bloomberg reports that the nation has been working to reign within the affect of its largest web firms. This entails specializing in the possession and dealing with of the knowledge that on-line corporations, equivalent to Alibaba and Tencent, acquire from lots of of hundreds of thousands of customers each day.

The nation’s examination and delisting of Didi comes days after the corporate went public at $4.4 billion, the biggest U.S. IPO for a Chinese firm since Alibaba went public at $25 billion in 2014.