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China: New draft law states overseas transfers of digital data may be blocked

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11 Apr 2017

April 11th, 2017 - The Chinese government announced a change to its cross-border data transfer policy.

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1

1 certainly harmful

0 likely harmful

0 liberalising

List of interventions

1 in force

Implementation date

11 May 2017

Revocation date:

No revocation date

Local operations requirement In force

The Cyberspace Administration of China announced a draft law in April 2017, which states that all data being transferred overseas with a size of over 1,000GB or affecting more than 500,000 inividuals ...

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