JAKARTA - China's Cyberspace Administration (CAC) announced on Thursday, June 30 that it is seeking feedback from the public on draft rules governing the overseas transfer of personal data.
The new rules being drafted are part of efforts by Chinese regulators to strengthen oversight of the datasets collected by the country's private sector and its popular apps.
Under the draft rules, the entity that collects personal data will be responsible for assessing the legality, legitimacy, needs of the data, its scope, and whether it will remain protected after being transferred overseas.
The draft also includes methods for handling personal information by domestic processors and recipients abroad.
China has in recent years emphasized the risks to national security inherent in transferring user data overseas.
CAC launched a cybersecurity review into the Full Truck Alliance and Kanzhun with Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Global in July last year, and ordered them to stop registering new users, citing national security and public interest reasons.
On Wednesday, the Full Truck Alliance and Kanzhun said they had fixed their safety issues and received regulatory approval to proceed with new user registrations.
The draft rules are designed to support a data security law implemented in September last year, which requires all companies in China to classify the data they handle into several categories and regulate how that data is stored and transferred to other parties.
Organizations must also receive approval for the cross-border transfer of core and critical data through special mechanisms, according to the law.
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