Personal Information Protection Law

The development of big data brings convenience to life but also breeds chaos. The first personal information protection law of PRC was designed to curb collection of excessive personal information and its misuse, which is often a subject of complaints, the law seeks to ensure users' knowledge and consent when their personal data is collected and processed. This article compares relevant regulations of the PIPL with the GDPR with regard to 13 different aspects. From the comparison, we can see that most regulations in the PIPL are similar to those in the GDPR, especially in the context of...

New requests due to the current data protection law of the PR China

In the past few years, data extortion, theft, disclosure and other incidents have been commonplace in China. Data security problems have risen to unprecedented levels and have a direct impact on information security in the country, industry, businesses and individuals. Against this background, the Data Protection Act (DSL) of the People's Republic of China was passed by the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress on June 10, 2021 and officially implemented on September 1, 2021...

Daniel Albrecht , Computer Law Review International (CRi), 05/2021, P.142; publishing house Otto Schmidt

The development of big data brings convenience to life but also breeds chaos. The first personal information protection law of PRC was designed to curb collection of excessive personal information and its misuse, which is often a subject of complaints, the law seeks to ensure users' knowledge and consent when their personal data is collected and processed. This article compares relevant regulation on PIPL with GDPR from 13 aspects. From the comparison, we can see that most...