China pushes for security reviews of firms seeking to export user data

BEIJING: China’s top internet regulator on Friday published draft guidelines that will subject companies with more than 1 million users in the country to a security review before they can send user-related data abroad.

The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said in a statement that the security review requirement would also be applied to firms if their data is collected and generated by operators of “critical information infrastructure,” or if the data to be sent overseas contains “important” information.