– Setting rules for cybersecurity. The Regulations on the Security and Protection of Computer Information Systems was released in 1994, designed to safeguard and supervise computer information system security.
最高人民法院发布《关于为跨境诉讼当事人提供网上立案服务的若干规定》
On Feb. 3, 2021, the Supreme People’s Court published
Several Provisions on Providing Online Case Filing Services for Cross-Border Litigants (Provisions), which took effect on the same date. According to the Provisions, online registration, case filing services (along with guidelines and inquiry services for online case filings), and online video verification for appointment of attorneys must be provided for cross-border litigants, including foreigners, residents of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Macao Special Administrative Region, Taiwan Region, and citizens of mainland China with their habitual domiciles located in foreign countries or Hong Kong, Macao, or Taiwan, and enterprises and organizations registered in foreign countries or Hong Kong, Macao, or Taiwan. The scope of cases that can be filed via the online service includes first-instance civil and commercial
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China is continuing to move forward with its first comprehensive privacy law. China recently issued a second version of the draft Personal Information Protection Law (Draft PIPL) which will be open for public comments until May 28, 2021. (An earlier version of the law was released at the end of 2020.) The law is anticipated to come into effect sometime in the next one to two years.
Current State of Laws
China does not currently have a comprehensive data privacy law. There are some rules about data protection and use scattered in existing laws, national standards and governmental guidelines. For example, the country’s current Cybersecurity Law, which came into effect in June 2017, is focused on the “critical information infrastructure.” Specifically, the law is directed at “network operators” (anyone owning or operating a computer system network), and suppliers of network products and services.