In Part I of our alert about China’s new safe harbor rules, we discussed key developments between the draft Provisions on Regulating and Facilitating Cross-Border Data Flow (Chinese version only) and the Provisions on...more
Six months after the Cyberspace Administration of China (the CAC) sought public consultation on the draft Provisions on Regulating and Facilitating Cross-Border Data Flow (the Draft Provisions, Chinese version only), the...more
China is seeking to take a significant step to relax the compliance burden on multinational corporations (MNCs) regarding data export from China by allowing: (i) certain routine data exports for daily business operation or...more
On 1 June 2023, new measures explaining the requirements for using the standard contract (China Standard Contract) mechanism to legally export personal information from China as well as the form of the “standard contract”...more
In this episode, partners Amigo Xie, Corey Bieber, and Whitney McCollum focus on the China Data Privacy laws, the recent China Standard Contract that took effect 1 June 2023, and the effects and restrictions it may have on...more
In our previous posts, we discussed what data export activities are subject to scrutiny assessment (CAC Assessment) conducted by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) (see Part 1) and examined what companies must do...more
In a recent alert, we painted the big picture of the security assessment conducted by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) to data exporting activities from China (CAC Assessment), highlighting what data export...more
With the rapid development of the global digital economy, multinational companies (MNCs) have been forced to find legally compliant ways to transfer data across borders. In the past, many MNCs relied on data transfer...more
As China enhances its cybersecurity and data protection regime, the processing of personal information, and in particular the information of customers and employees, has come into focus under the Personal Information...more
The Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), which is considered the first comprehensive law on personal information protection in People’s Republic of China (PRC or China), came into effect on 1 November 2021. Prior to...more