Chapter 18: Reselling User Information
"Brother Qin, Brother Qin, Brother Qin!" Xiao Xuan of the Technical Investigation Section hurriedly ran into the office of the Serious Crime Team and came straight to me.
Before I could speak, Xiao Xuan said to me with a gesture of inviting merit: "Brother Qin, I just hacked into Shi Yan's company system and discovered an important secret!" ”
"An important secret?" I frowned and looked at him.
Xiao Xuan is a computer master specially recruited by the boss Shen Ruoshan, and it turns out to be a hacker. He is young, although he is professional, he is still childish, and he always looks like a child when he talks and acts.
During the on-site investigation, Li Meng found that Xia Die's clothing, food, housing and transportation were all luxury brands, brand-name clothing, imported cosmetics, and even the house was a high-rise in a prosperous section. According to our investigation, Shi Yan opened a software development company, mainly making some dating software such as shake and drifting bottles, but they are not well-known software.
What's more, in the current form of the Internet, niche dating software like this has no big commercial value at all, where did Shi Yan get so much money? So I asked Xiao Xuan to investigate Shi Yan's company and see if he could find any valuable clues.
Xiao Xuan handed me some of Shi Yan's company information, and slowly explained: "Shi Yan's company brand is called Weiai, and there are more than a dozen dating apps under it, all of which are shake, drifting bottles and the like. Although this kind of software is not famous, most people download and play it for a few days and then uninstall it, but it cannot be ignored that the user base of this kind of software is very large, and Shi Yan is using a huge number of user bases to make profits. ”
I took the information in Xiao Xuan's hand, which listed more than a dozen kinds of software under Shi Yan's company, all of which were named after only love, only love night chat, only love dating, only love drifting bottle, etc. All software is released in the name of dating, the so-called dating, is the opposite sex of friends, but this kind of software is not formal, there is no guarantee, the ratio of registered users to men and women is even as high as nine to one, which is full of many robots, and some members of criminal organizations are mixed in, tricking users into video chat extortion.
Of course, this does not affect the continuous use of lonely men and women to register software, from the data, Shi Yan's software has at least hundreds of thousands of download registered users, and even two signature software download registered users have reached more than 10 million, even if these users use the software for a long time, but as long as someone registers is enough.
Shi Yan collects the personal information of these users and then illegally resells it to other companies to make a profit.
With the rapid development of the Internet, the relevant laws and regulations are not perfect, which leads to many software developers taking advantage of the loopholes in the law and bringing back and forth in the gray area of the law. The leakage of users' personal information has become a situation that cannot be ignored.
So far, the way for users' personal information to be leaked is not only the permission requested when the software is installed, but even the way to listen to it. This situation is not rare, many people have reacted, chatting with family members in the morning to mention something, and in the afternoon they will receive relevant items pushed by the shopping platform on their mobile phones.
In the information age, there is no privacy at all, and when you think about it, it's really scary.
Shi Yan took advantage of the loopholes in the law and used his company's software to resell users' personal information and make huge profits. But whether this matter has anything to do with Shi Yan's death still needs to be carefully considered.
Just then, my phone rang with an unfamiliar number on it.
I hesitated for a moment, and after answering the phone, I said in a deep voice: "I'm Qin Mu." ”
The other side of the phone was very quiet, there was no sound at all, but if you listened carefully, you could still faintly hear a person making a somewhat heavy wheezing sound.
Although the other party did not speak, I could vaguely guess that the person who called me was Zhao Long.
Zhao Long is Shi Yan's subordinate, and he has worked with Shi Yan for nearly 20 years, and he must know Shi Yan's situation very well. Therefore, he must also know the reason why Shi Yan had nightmares, and even know Shi Yan's experience before he opened the company.
But when I asked him at that time, he didn't explain it to me, which shows that he was also afraid of something, if Shi Yan, Liu Yuzhou, and Li Xiaojie did something wrong, Zhao Long was likely to be involved.
Shi Yan's sudden death made Zhao Long very scared, and he couldn't accept this fact for a while, but I knew that he would soon figure it out and that he couldn't get out of this matter.
I left him my personal phone number and told him to go home and think about it and call me when he figured it out.
It seems that now, he has figured it out.
"Yes...... Is it Officer Qin? I'm ...... I'm Zhao Long......" On the phone, Zhao Long was very scared, and even his voice was trembling.
On the phone, I smiled slightly, since he took the initiative to contact me, it means that he has something to say to me. So, I wasn't in a hurry, and said lightly, "Oh, do you have something to do with me?" ”
"I ...... That one...... Actually, it's nothing...... It's just ......" Zhao Long swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva hard, and didn't get to the point for a long time.
"Oh, I'll hang up if it's okay." I said without hurrying.
"Officer Qin! I have something important to tell you! He said suddenly, in a somewhat anxious tone, as if he had just made up his mind.
"If you have something important, hurry up and say that I am investigating Shi Yan's case!" Seeing that he was in a hurry, I immediately said in an impatient tone.
"That's right, what I'm going to say is related to Brother Yan's death!" Zhao Long heard me mention Shi Yan's case, and immediately said.
"Okay, then you can say it, I'll listen." I slowed my tone, ready to listen to what he said was important.
But there was silence on the phone for a while, and I didn't hear Zhao Long say a word.
What is the situation with this person, I was a little impatient, and was about to speak, when Zhao Long suddenly trembled and said, "Officer Qin, it's not clear on the phone, can we meet and talk?" ”
"Yes, I'm in the Ningzhou Public Security Bureau, come on." I smiled slightly, this Zhao Long, after all, I couldn't help it.
"Officer Qin, can you change places?" Zhao Long hesitated for a moment and asked me softly.
"Okay, you can pick a place." I said lightly.
Zhao Long was silent for a moment, and finally said slowly: "Just the Public Security Bureau, I'll go over now." ”
Seeing that I hung up the phone, Li Meng hurriedly asked, "Zhao Long's phone?" ”
I pondered for a while, and said quietly: "That's right, Zhao Long is coming to see me, and he must tell me something about Shi Yan." ”
"Tell you about Shi Yan? But why didn't you say it when you recorded it for him yesterday, and suddenly wanted to say it again after a night? Li Meng was puzzled by Zhao Long's different abnormal behavior before and after.
I can't figure this out, overnight, Zhao Long's attitude has changed dramatically, could it be that he experienced something last night?
But all this, after Zhao Long came, he understood......