China approves sweeping data privacy law

Date:
Mon, 23 Aug 2021 09:50:28 +0000

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China passes a comprehensive data protection law that imposes strict conditions for user data collection and use.

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The Chinese parliament has passed a stringent new privacy law aimed at safeguarding users personal data .

The new law, which according to Chinese state media comes into effect on November 1, 2021, follows months of the state tightening regulation on the rampant collection of user data that saw dozens of apps banned .

Dubbed the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), the new legislation details compliance requirements for companies operating outside the mainland to help ensure users data is protected when its ferried outside of China. TechRadar needs you!

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PIPL is reported to list a comprehensive set of rules that govern the collection, processing, storage, and protection of data, as well as introducing the requirement for foreign companies operating in China to appoint a local representative to ensure compliance. User is king

The PIPL, which reportedly draws many parallels with Europes General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), calls on both state and private entities that handle personal information to reduce data collection and obtain user
consent.

The law states that companies must state very clearly on how they intend to handle the users personal information, and ensure that they limit themselves to the "minimum scope necessary to achieve the goals of handling data.

Once the law comes into play, it will, for instance, prevent companies from setting different prices for the same service based on the users history.

Reuters reports that the National Peoples Congress (NPC) has lauded the new legislation in an op-ed piece published in the Chinese state media outlet Peoples Court Daily.

Personalization is the result of a users choice, and true personalized recommendations must ensure the users freedom to choose, without compulsion. Therefore, users must be given the right to not make use of personalized recommendation functions, reasons NPC. Weve also rounded up the best business VPN services

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