China's New Cybersecurity Law (Video)

Mimi Yang, a Ropes & Gray government enforcement partner in Hong Kong, provides an overview of China's new cybersecurity law (CSL), which came into effect in June 2017.

Transcript:

The new cybersecurity law of China has been in the works for a few years. It actually recently went into effect on June 1, 2017, so this year. It really regulates a lot of the cybersecurity issues, for instance data risk, data storage, personal information and important data. All of those are quite loosely defined in the new cybersecurity law however. Most multinationals will fall under "network operators" as defined under the new cybersecurity law. The cybersecurity law also has a provision that relates to "critical information infrastructure operators" (CIIOs) – those are operators that are not well defined in the new cybersecurity law, but may fall under certain industries such as telecommunications, water resources, the public health sector, social welfare and other