China, where companies and the government have dedicated themselves to collecting data on individuals that will give them a “social credit score”, is emerging as a surprise leader in the Asian region on data privacy rules.
Lawyers say that Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation, which came into effect last Friday, has prompted many Asian regulators and corporations to respond so that the tough new rules that govern how data is processed, stored, used and transferred do not jeopardise global flows of data.
“China in some respects is the country that has embraced GDPR most directly, but in a very Chinese way,” said Richard Bird, partner at Freshfields.
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