On December 29, 2025, the Cyberspace Administration of China ("CAC") officially released the Notice on the Filing of Compliance Audit Results for the Protection of Minors’ Personal Information ("Filing Notice")....more
On December 6 2025, the CAC released the draft Network Data Security Risk Assessment Measures (Draft for Comments) for public consultation. The measures aim to standardize network data security risk assessment activities,...more
On December 29, 2025, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) issued the Announcement on the Reporting of Minors' Personal Information Protection Compliance Audit Status, which requires personal information handlers to...more
This monthly report outlines key developments in China’s data protection sector for December. The following events merit special attention: On November 22, CAC and the MPS jointly released the Provisions on the Protection of...more
On 18 July 2025, the Cyberspace Administration of China (“CAC”) issued the Announcement on the Reporting of Personal Information Protection Officer Information (“CAC PIPO Reporting Announcement”), which launched a centralized...more
On September 9, 2025, Dior (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. (“Dior Shanghai”) was publicly sanctioned in China for unlawfully transferring personal information (“PI”) overseas. This marks the first administrative penalty in China for...more
On September 9, 2025, China announced the landmark administrative penalty against Dior (Shanghai) over unlawful cross-border transfers of personal information, with the primary violation being the failure to satisfy the...more
In a move to further bolster data privacy, China’s State Administration for Market Regulation and the Standardization Administration of China jointly issued a national standard, GB/T 45574-2025, Data Security Technology –...more
On 18 July 2025, China’s Cyberspace Administration (CAC) officially launched its online portal (Portal) for registration of China Data Protection Officers (China DPO). This operationalizes the requirements under Article 52 of...more
This monthly report outlines key developments in China’s data protection sector for August. The following events merit special attention: CAC Summons NVIDIA Over Cybersecurity Concerns Related to H20 Chip: On July 31, CAC...more
On July 18, 2025, the Cyberspace Administration of China (the “CAC”) issued the Notice on Launching the Reporting Mechanism for Personal Information Protection Officers (the “Notice ”). This development marks a significant...more
Chinese data regulators are intensifying their focus on the data protection compliance audit obligations under the Personal Information Protection Law (“PIPL“), with the release of the Administrative Measures for Personal...more
The Guangzhou Internet Court (the “Court”) recently issued its first judgment involving the cross-border transfer of personal data under the Personal Information Protection Law (“PIPL”).1 An international hotel group was...more
The PRC National Technical Committee 260 on Cybersecurity of SAC (“TC260”) published new Guidelines on Identifying Sensitive Personal Information (“Guidelines”) on 18 September 2024, nearly three months after it released the...more
The Guangzhou Internet Court released the first ruling interpreting the requirements for cross-border transfer of personal information under the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL). This case has significant...more
On September 30, 2024, China’s State Council released the Network Data Security Management Regulations, which will enter into force on January 1, 2025. The regulations apply to “electronic data processed and generated through...more
Additional and clarified data compliance obligations will soon come into force under the long-awaited Network Data Security Management Regulation (“Regulation“), which was released on 30 September 2024. The Regulation is...more
The Personal Information Protection Law (“PIPL“) requires a data controller to conduct compliance audits of its personal data processing activities on a regular basis (“Self-supervision Audits“). Apart from such...more
While the definition of sensitive personal information in China has always been different to other jurisdictions, with a focus on risk of harm at its heart, new draft guidance should make it easier for organisations to map...more
The newly promulgated measures increase the threshold of data triggering security assessments and contract requirements while leaving room for Chinese authorities to heavily restrict cross-border data transfers. In...more
China is seeking to take a significant step to relax the compliance burden on multinational corporations (MNCs) regarding data export from China by allowing: (i) certain routine data exports for daily business operation or...more
The Cyberspace Administration of China (“CAC”) on September 28, 2023 issued the draft Provisions on the Regulation and Promotion of Cross-Border Data Flows (“draft Provisions”), just one year after China’s data export...more
The Cyberspace Administration of China (“CAC”) on August 3, 2023 published the draft Administrative Measures for Personal Information Protection Compliance Audits (“draft Measures”) for public comment through September 2,...more
On 1 June 2023, new measures explaining the requirements for using the standard contract (China Standard Contract) mechanism to legally export personal information from China as well as the form of the “standard contract”...more
On June 29, 2023, the Cyberspace Administration of China ("CAC") and the Innovation, Technology and Industry Bureau of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region ("Hong Kong") Government ("HKITIB") signed the Memorandum of...more