Published: August 27, 2021
On August 20, 2021, China passed its first general data protection law, called the Personal Information Protection Law (“PIPL”). The law is set to take effect on November 1, 2021 (two months away), and it applies to both (1) in-country processing of personal information of natural persons; and (2) out-of-country processing of personal information of natural persons who are in China, if such processing is: (a) for the purposes of providing products or services to those people; (b) to analyze/evaluate the behavior of those people; or (3) other circumstances prescribed by laws and administrative regulations. Thus, the PIPL will become one more thing that companies have to consider in weighing questions of where to store which user data.
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