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DCC · DATA COMPLIANCE CHINA China data law, for overseas counsel.
§ TAG · DSL

Filed under dsl

Every brief tagged "dsl".

  • § 01 · IMPORTANT-DATA

    'Important Data' Is a Category, Not a Tier

    Hong Yanqing argues the mainstream reading of Article 21 of the Data Security Law confuses enterprise asset-inventory language with state-level legal-interest protection — with real consequences for cross-border transfers, enforcement, and how PIPL and DSL stack.

    important-data · dsl · commentary
  • § 02 · IMPORTANT-DATA

    How to Identify 'Important Data' — A Plain-Language Method from Wang Qinglan

    Wang Qinglan, head of compliance at a Chinese data exchange, walks through China's unique 'important data' concept in plain language: where it came from, why no other major jurisdiction has anything quite like it, how the U.S., EU, Japan and Korea solve the same problem differently, and — most useful for compliance teams — three methods to identify whether a dataset is 'important' in practice. Her own 'unorthodox' shortcut: ask whether a hostile foreign actor could use this data to cause trouble. If yes, treat it as important data.

    important-data · data-classification · cross-border
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