On the 20th of Aug, the National People's Congress of China has adopted a new privacy law, the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), which will come into effect on the 1st Nov 2021. In this first post in a two-part series, the IAPP break down the PIPL and see how it stacks up to the EU General Data Protection Regulation.
In related news, the South China Morning Post writes how observers believe the PIPL will make Chinese technology companies a lot less powerful and could force them to adapt.
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