Cyberspace Administration of China, Measures for the Security Assessment of Overseas Transfer of Data (Draft for Comments)

国家互联网信息办公室数据出境安全评估办法 (征求意见稿)

November 05, 2021 | BY

Susan Mok

CAC issues draft measures specifying conditions where security assessment is required for overseas transfer of data

Issued: October 29, 2021

Main contents: Where any of the following circumstances applies to the provision of data overseas of a data processor, the data processor shall file for a security assessment of overseas data transfer with the state cyberspace administration through the provincial-level cyberspace administration of the place where it is located:

(1)        having personal information and important data collected and generated by an operator of critical information infrastructure;

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