China is pushing legislation to govern the use of cryptography for data privacy for both government and private players. Under these measures, China will encourage the use of modern encryption technology for commercial usage as long as its sovereign interests are not compromised.
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The new cyber security laws will take effect from January 2020.
The law mandates that all state secrets have to stored and transmitted using secure encrypted channels. Private players working in encryption have to give guarantees on their security management systems.
Private encryption developers cannot be compelled to handover sensitive information. If someone spots vulnerabilities and does not report them, they are liable to be punished.
This move is expected to protect the business interests of Chinese tech companies.
China conducts mass surveillance on digital platforms on a mammoth scale and strongarms companies to store data locally and wields the power to shutdown players that do not comply with their requests.
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The Great Firewall of China is the combination of legislative actions and technologies enforced by the People’s Republic of China to regulate the Internet domestically. Its role in Internet censorship in China is to block access to selected foreign websites and to slow down cross-border internet traffic. The effect includes: limiting access to foreign information sources, blocking foreign internet tools (e.g. Google search, Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia and others) and mobile apps, and requiring foreign companies to adapt to domestic regulations. Besides censorship, the GFW has also influenced the development of China’s internal internet economy by nurturing domestic companies and reducing the effectiveness of products from foreign internet companies. The Great Firewall is part of the Golden Shield Project. Since 2013, the firewall is technically operated by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), which is the entity in charge of delining the Communist Party of China’s will into technical specifications. More Info
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