China makes it even harder for data to leave its shores

Starting in June, companies operating in China must undergo a regulatory intervention when sending data abroad, thanks to the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC). The CAC announced on Friday businesses that handle the personal information of up to 1 million people, or want to send user information of up to 100,000 …

[Anonymous Coward]

We can but hope

that western governments would do the same to protect our data. Not going to happen though is it. Too many bungs being gratefully accepted I think.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: We can but hope

They do protect our data from foreign powers. What more do you want? You data protected from your government? What are you? A commie?

[Arty Effem]

Risk Assessment

I'm just trying to assess the risk of someone transferring the data to a memory stick, then flying it across the border with an autonomous drone or similar. I'll do the same for radio and satellite links.

[Sceptic Tank]

No, not Yahoo!!!

I always wonder what the people of the CCP actually think when they realize their policies are so shitty that they have to implement these levels of control to force the other 1bn citizens to obey. Clearly nobody likes them but they persist.

[Anonymous Coward]

@Sceptic Tank - Re: No, not Yahoo!!!

With an approval rate of 40% to 50% there are still hundreds of millions of CCP fans, as much as this will displease you. And so far they are correct. These shitty policies how you call them, helped Chinese people move from middle age to where they are now. Western democracies are not entirely happy about this because communism was supposed to be a failure, something your democratic government would be able to use to scare you.

I know this because I sped the first half of my life under a communist regime (not in China) so unlike you, I have a lot of first hand experience.

[llaryllama]

Re: @Sceptic Tank - No, not Yahoo!!!

Chinese people helped move the Chinese people from poverty, not the CCP and not their shitty policies.

By the way, I'm not sure if you've ever actually been to China but it's about the furthest from a communist/socialist society you can get. Rabid capitalism with Chinese characteristics would be a more appropriate designation.

[PhilipN]

Data Privacy

You do realise that the main way countries protect personal privacy is to constrain data being sent outside the territory?

And kindly give some examples of Western companies which have databases relating to so many people.