In the restive region of Xinjiang - home to most of China's Uighur ethnic minority - rights groups say residents are forced to install software on their mobile phones that allow police to access their location, photos or text messages. or seriously threaten the safety of individuals" including race, ethnicity, religion, biometric data or a person's whereabouts.īut Chinese cities across the country are peppered with surveillance cameras, some outfitted for facial recognition, collecting biometric information daily. The law says sensitive personal data includes information which if leaked can lead to "discrimination. The law, which comes into effect on November 1, also stipulates that the personal data of Chinese nationals cannot be transferred to countries with lower standards of data security than China - rules which may present problems for foreign businesses.Ĭompanies that fail to comply can face fines of up to 50 million yuan ($7.6 million) or five percent of their annual turnover. Instead, she said, it aims "to establish the foundations for the digital economy over the next 40 or 50 years." Megadeth is working on its 16th studio album and announced the dates for their rescheduled Metal Tour of the Year outing with Lamb of God, Trivium and In Flames last week. "China is not really looking at the short term with this law." "China's new privacy regime is one of the toughest in the world," said Kendra Schaefer, a partner at Beijing-based consulting firm Trivium China. The law is modelled after the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation, one of the world's strictest online privacy protection laws.
Tens of thousands of consumers have complained about having to pay more for hailing a taxi using an iPhone than a cheaper mobile phone model or for tickets if they are profiled as a business traveller, China's consumer protection watchdog said. It will prevent companies from setting different prices for the same service based on clients' shopping history. Someone mentioned here that demos of IW and VF were leaked to fans years ago but I haven't seen them anywhere. Theres an even earlier demo of Demon as well. The law aims to protect those who "feel strongly about personal data being used for user profiling and by recommendation algorithms or the use of big data in setting prices," a spokesman for the National People's Congress told state news agency Xinhua earlier this week. Rapture and another early demo with some dying in your arms riffs from the ascendancy era are two that a lot of people dont know about. The new rules are also expected to further rattle China's tech sector, with companies like ride hailing giant Didi and gaming behemoth Tencent in regulators' crosshairs in recent months over misuse of personal data.Ĭhinese tech stocks including Alibaba and Tencent dipped after Friday morning's announcement.
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