More than one year after the release of a draft amended version of the GB/T 35273-2017 Information Security Technology – Personal Information Security Specification (the 2017 Specification) for public comments in January 2019, the National Information Security Standardization Technical Committee (commonly known as TC260) released the final amended version on 6 March 2020 (the 2020 Specification), which will come into force on 1 October 2020. In between the issuance of the January draft and the 2020 Specification, there were two further draft amended versions issued on 25 June 2019 and 22 October 2019, respectively (together with the January draft, the Previous Draft Specifications).