China Update: Privacy Law and Network Security Developments

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The past 16 months have been eventful in China in connection with privacy law and network security developments.

Key privacy law developments included:

.. the coming into effect of new privacy provisions of the Consumer Protection Law;

.. a high-profile prosecution under the privacy law provisions of the Criminal Law;

.. proposed changes to the Criminal Law in order to broaden the scope of criminal liability for the misuse of personal data, including through the addition of an offense that would cover corporate as well as individual offenders; and

.. a number of sector-specific developments.

Originally published in Bloomberg BNA's Privacy & Security Law Report, 14 PVLR 677, 04/20/2015.

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