Chinese regulators on Friday ordered cell shops to take down 25 extra apps operated by the ride-hailing big Didi Chuxing, saying that the apps violated native legal guidelines relating to the gathering and use of non-public person information.

After ordering shops to delist Didi’s foremost app in China final weekend, the Cyberspace Administration of China has expanded its ban to Didi’s apps for company customers, monetary providers, and drivers that use its ride-hailing platform. The nation’s our on-line world regulator not too long ago launched a cybersecurity review into Didi and has required the corporate to cease registering new customers for its platforms within the meantime. It additionally ordered Didi to stick to authorized necessities and enact safeguards to guard the safety of customers’ private information.

Users that already downloaded these apps can nonetheless proceed to make use of them as regular. However, the Cyberspace Administration will prohibit web sites and platforms from offering entry to Didi-linked providers in China, in keeping with a Google translation of the assertion on the federal government’s web site.

In an announcement posted on the social media platform Weibo, Didi promised to comply with the authorities’ necessities and work to deal with these safety issues.

“Didi sincerely accepts and resolutely obeys the requirements of the relevant competent authorities, strictly in accordance with laws and regulations, with reference to relevant national standards, in-depth investigation and serious rectification of all existing problems, and effectively protect the personal information security of users,” the corporate mentioned.

As the Wall Street Journal notes, Didi’s regulatory complications began simply days after the corporate went public at $4.4 billion on the finish of June, the most important U.S. IPO for a Chinese firm since Alibaba went public in 2014 at $25 billion. In addition to the Cyberspace Administration’s investigation, two U.S. senators have referred to as on the Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate whether or not the corporate misled traders forward of its preliminary public providing.

Authorities in China have additionally reportedly been working to curb the affect of its largest web companies, together with Alibaba and Tencent, which accumulate info from a whole lot of thousands and thousands of customers day-after-day.