When you go to a restaurant to eat, have you habitually taken out your cell phone and started to scan the code to order? The code is a public number, then authorize personal information, and finally enter the ordering page, almost become most of the restaurant business ordering process, and many merchants even no longer provide a paper menu. In a few days, you will also receive a variety of these public number of food push according to media reports, Deyang, a consumer Ms. Luo in the hot pot restaurant dining was asked to sweep the code to order, Ms. Luo proposed to use the traditional menu to order, was the clerk refused. After the clerk used Ms. Luo's cell phone to scan the code, Ms. Luo found that the premise of code ordering is that the business to obtain the guest's "WeChat avatar, nickname, region and gender information", and can only be allowed, can not be rejected, otherwise it can not be ordered. In the end, the court ruled that the restaurant should stop infringing on her rights and delete her personal information within ten days of the judgment coming into effect, as well as bear the litigation costs of 200 yuan for Ms. Luo.
Trial judge Peng Shifen introduced the case, the verdict is mainly to play a guiding role, so that consumers and operators are aware of the unauthorized collection of personal information such behavior is illegal. Although the scanning code ordering to a certain extent can provide convenience for merchants and customers, but when it becomes a "single choice" or "mandatory option", and even business tracking marketing or "big data to kill familiarization
The next time you meet a mandatory scanning code, you can also choose to be justified, in the law to justify the refusal!