On December 29, 2017, the Standardization Administration of China, jointly with the PRC General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, issued the Information Security Technology – Personal Information Security Specification (GB/T 35273-2017, “Specification”), which officially came into effect on May 1, 2018. Although the Specification is only a recommended (as opposed to a mandatory) national standard, we have in the months since its introduction seen regulatory authorities in China point to the Standard as… Continue Reading