Cracking China's Cybersecurity Law

January 19, 2017 | BY

CLP Temp

Companies preparing to comply with the imminent PRC Cybersecurity Law must assess its cross-border data restrictions in a global and regulatory context. Here is what MNCs need to know before the law enters into effect in June

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The word on the street is that corporate counsel and legal departments are burning the midnight oil in preparation for June 1, when the PRC Cybersecurity Law comes into effect.

They have much to do, with the nation's first comprehensive privacy and security regulation for cyberspace—formally passed on November 7, 2016—setting paradigm-shifting requirements such as onshore data storage applicable to “critical information infrastructure” (CII).