On January 25, 2018, China released the final version of the Personal Information Security Specification, new voluntary standards on the protection of personal information. The standards anticipate and address the “issues faced in personal information security during the rapid development of IT technology; with the protection of personal information as their core” and is meant to “regulate all phases of big data operations and related conduct, such as the collection, storage, processing, use and disclosure of personal information.” The standards will go into effect on May 1, 2018.
The standards will apply to organizations using information systems to process personal information; specific departments that involve network security, third party assessment organizations; and other organizations that deal with the oversight, management, and assessment of personal information security. Generally, they lay out the following 8 basic principles of personal information security.
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