In this post, I try to keep track of all data privacy laws in China available in English. If no full translation is available, I do my best to link to some relevant comments published by observers. I find it convenient to have all of them gathered in one place, and I hope it can be helpful to you as well.
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Data Privacy Law in China: Comparison with the EU and U.S. Approaches
Data Privacy in China is usually only mentioned in discussions on state surveillance, and the legitimate concerns it raises. A lesser known question is the development of obligations for companies towards consumers, i.e. consumer privacy rules. This post focuses on their evolution, culminating with China’s Cybersecurity Law and its guidelines, and their comparison with data privacy rules in the U.S. and the EU.
This post summarizes the main results of my law review article “China’s Approach on Data Privacy Law: A Third Way Between the U.S. and the EU?” to be published in the Penn State Journal of Law and International Affairs, vol. 8.1. It comprehensively details the results of a research that is part of my Ph.D earned from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. The present blog post only aims at “briefly” presenting the main findings in a more casual fashion.
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OPINION. In its fight against Covid-19, China makes intensive use of the personal data of its people, while the EU doesn’t – yet. Big data analytics “for the common good”, including large-scale monitoring of population movements and identification of potential cases is a significant innovation in the management of this epidemic. This should be done, but with privacy in mind.
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