The Chinese leadership has long seen data as a strategic resource and has declared it a “factor of production” in 2020. This frames data protection and cross-border data transfer in an explicit national security light. The lack of clarity of rules has been a major concern to MNC’s globally integrated IT systems. The release of recently published regulations sheds some light on requirements for cross-border data transfer.
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The Irish data protection regulator has sent its draft decision on Facebook to its counterparts in the EU. Meta could be prohibited from transferring EU data to the US. Yet that's unlikely to happen in the short-term. And the social media advertising giant's temporary shore of salvation is already in sight.
By Falk Steiner
The Shanghai police have apparently been incredibly careless with citizens' data. China's government now wants to enforce existing laws more strictly. After all, the incident shows: The authorities may be collecting data like crazy, but in some cases, they are astonishingly careless.
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For years, Chinese and international companies were able to grow almost unregulated. China's data protection act is intended to prevent that in the future. New data rules have massive consequences for international companies: from data trading centers to surveillance. Data transfer in particular is affected. From algorithms to data laws to hacker attacks - current China data protection news from the Table.editorial team.
