In recent years, airports and train stations have become the "star chasing scenes" for many fans. Fans have congested exits, squeezed public passages, and even clashed with other passengers for close-up filming, disrupting public order. How did these fans obtain the artist's travel information? Who is selling artist information again? After spending tens of yuan to purchase artist information and then reselling it at a markup, Zhang was originally a fan of an artist who liked to go to the airport to follow celebrities and take photos. With so many photos taken, she found that before each departure, someone would always ask if she could help take photos on her behalf. After several experiences of filming on behalf of Zhang, more and more fans have approached her for filming, and some have suggested paying her specifically to do so. In this way, Zhang became a full-time "proxy photographer". In order to receive more agency photography services, Zhang joined many agency photography groups. A person claiming to be "Zhang Ping" found her. Zhang Ping claimed to work for an airline and could check the artist's flight number. At first, Zhang did not fully trust "Zhang Ping". She first purchased the personal information of an artist from "Zhang Ping" and received the artist's flight number and travel information in less than half an hour. Zhang rushed to the airport and indeed captured this artist on camera. Afterwards, the two began to trade frequently. During this process, a fan who often entrusted Zhang to act on her behalf contacted her proactively, hoping to purchase the artist itinerary information she needed from Zhang on a regular basis. Zhang thought that this could share the cost of chasing stars, so he agreed. Afterwards, Zhang began to replicate this model by purchasing celebrity information from his superior 'Zhang Ping' for 50-80 yuan each, and then reselling it at a markup to others. Zhang Ping said that at first, reselling a message would increase the price by about 100 yuan. Later, depending on the popularity of the celebrity, the maximum price for a message could be increased to about 1000 yuan. In April 2024, Zhang was arrested by the public security organs. According to the investigation, Zhang traded over a hundred pieces of personal information of citizens and accumulated profits exceeding 20000 yuan. Outsourced customers of airlines use paper and pen to secretly record artist schedules for sale. Shu is the person who has been trading with Zhang all along. She has been using the fake name "Zhang Ping" to communicate with Zhang. The reason why she was able to obtain information about those artists is because she works at a customer service company outsourced by the airline. According to Shu, her office computer has an internal customer service system of the airline. As long as you enter the name of the passenger, you can display the flight information booked by the other party and the ID number number of the passenger. When Shu and Zhang trade, they will input the artist name proposed by Zhang into the system for query. According to Shu, the outsourced personnel of the airline company also have relevant confidentiality regulations, including not being able to use their mobile phones for recording and videoing. However, she took advantage of her position of being able to log in to the airline's ticketing system to record the relevant information on paper, and when the supervisor was not present, she sent the relevant information back to her subordinates for profit. The court found that Shu illegally obtained more than 100 pieces of personal information such as flight information and identity information of artists and sold them to Zhang, profiting a total of 13100 yuan from it. The court found that Zhang committed the crime of infringing on citizens' personal information and was sentenced to seven months in prison and fined; At the same time, the procuratorial organs believed that Zhang's behavior violated the public interest and filed a public interest lawsuit against her in accordance with the law. The court ordered Zhang to pay a public interest damage compensation of 23000 yuan and publicly apologize to the public for the infringement of citizens' personal information in news media at or above the provincial level. Shu committed the crime of infringing on citizens' personal information and was sentenced to ten months in prison, with a one-year probation period. At the same time, he was ordered to pay a public interest damage compensation of 13100 yuan, publicly apologize to the public for infringing on citizens' personal information in news media at or above the provincial level, and was prohibited from engaging in aviation customer service representative professions during the probation period. A large amount of artist travel information flooded social media platforms. A reporter's investigation found that in the gray industry chain of selling artist information, besides the source of information leakage and intermediaries involved in reselling information, what responsibilities should online platforms bear? Reporters searched the social platform with animated symbols of "airplane" and flight abbreviation "hb", and then dozens of relevant content appeared, some marked "cabbage price self check flight information", others wrote "self check the ID number of 10000 entertainment stars", etc. The reporter sent a private message to an account, and the other party requested to transfer 1 yuan first before entering the celebrity flight information group. After the transfer, the reporter was quickly pulled into another chat group. The group updates the schedules of a group of artists almost every few hours, and even has information on more than 30 artists who are preparing to travel in the past 2 days. As long as you pay 3 yuan, an artist's recent information including detailed flight numbers, departure and arrival times will be sent to you via private message in seconds. In recent years, the Cyberspace Administration of China has continuously strengthened the governance of information recommendation algorithms and issued a notice on carrying out the "Clear Network Platform Algorithm Typical Problem Governance" special action, clarifying that network platforms should establish and improve the social governance applications of algorithms in empowering the dissemination of high-quality content, identifying and discovering illegal behaviors, and other aspects. At the same time, experts pointed out that platform enterprises should also strengthen manual review efforts and enhance the application of artificial intelligence technology in related fields. Relevant departments and platform enterprises should also work together to continuously increase the punishment for those who publish these illegal and harmful information accounts. Experts say that the governance of illegal information needs to shift from "symptomatic" to "fundamental", and cannot only focus on illegal posts. The illegality of the post is superficial, and the root cause lies in the illegal activities of the account holder. It is necessary to pay attention to the personal and institutional associations behind the real name authentication of the account. (New Society)