China once again allows registration of new users in Didi, the “Chinese Uber”

The technology company Didi, known as the ‘Chinese Uber’, announced on Monday that it is once again admitting the registration of new users, which had been frozen after the Chinese authorities opened a cybersecurity investigation against the company in the summer of 2021.

“For more than a year, Didi has conscientiously cooperated with the security review, taking the problems found very seriously and carrying out a comprehensive rectification”, explained the technology company in a statement published on the Weibo social network.

“Upon approval from the Office of Cyber ​​Security Review”, the registration of new users will resume “immediatelyDidi stated.

The company also stated that,in the future“, it will take “effective measures to ensure the security of the platform”.

However, the app is still missing from Chinese stores, also as a result of the measures imposed by Beijing at the beginning of the investigation.

“According to the regulations, the download of the Didi app is not offered”, read a message at 4:00 p.m. local time on Monday (8:00 GMT) in an ‘app’ store in the Asian country.

Last July, the Chinese authorities imposed a fine of 4.27 million yuan (US$640,000, 590,000 euros) for “illegal activities” to the company.

Among the twelve activities that led to the reprimand were the transfer of incorrect information about transactions, the lack of data and traceability of the same and failures when applying the regulations on user identification.

Since mid-2021, Didi has been seen in the eye of the hurricane of the regulatory campaign that Beijing launched in sectors such as technology, especially after its IPO in New York, carried out in June of that year after apparently ignoring the opposition to the operation on the part of the Chinese government.

The company was delisted from the New York Stock Exchange last year and plans to go public in Hong Kong soon.

Source: EFE