Specifically, its data localisation measures could reduce interoperability of privacy legislation with the world," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. The PIPL "will indeed influence data privacy laws in the region. The PIPL is as much about protecting the privacy of China's nearly 1 billion internet users as it is about prioritising national security through cross-border data flow restrictions and continued surveillance, said Alexa Lee, a senior manager at the Information Technology Industry Council in Washington, DC. The PIPL is seen as China's latest attempt to regulate cyberspace and follows measures to rein in its tech giants that range from limiting the amount of time spent on online games to ordering food delivery companies to better protect workers.
Here is a look at the new China law and a roundup of planned data privacy regulations in the region: More than half the countries in the Asia-Pacific region have some form of legislation related to data protection and privacy, but more than one in four lack any regulation, according to the United Nations' trade agency (UNCTAD).Ĭoncerns around data privacy increased during the coronavirus pandemic as authorities introduced surveillance technologies they said were needed to track and trace infection, but which were criticised for being invasive. The Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) introduces perhaps the most stringent requirements and protections in the world, experts say, and could prompt other Asian nations to adopt similar regulations.
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