Data regulation with Chinese characteristics

Publication Type

Book Chapter

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

7-2021

Abstract

The regulation of data has increasingly become a common feature of trade agreements. While all regulators would agree on the need to strike a balance between the clashing interests of different stakeholders, their approaches often differ in practice. The various regulatory approaches often reflect the different legal, political, economic, social and cultural backgrounds of different countries. Thereby, it is important to understand the inherent logic and mechanisms of the different regulatory regimes.In this chapter, the focus lies on China, which is not only home to the largest e-commerce market in the world, but also has one of the most tightly regulated cyberspaces. By providing a detailed analysis of the rationale and operation of ‘data regulation with Chinese characteristics’, the chapter seeks not only to help understand this discrete regulatory model but also to find ways to deal with such a regime at the international level.

Keywords

China, cybersecurity, data regulation, sovereignty, international trade law

Discipline

Asian Studies | Information Security | International Trade Law | Internet Law

Publication

Big data and global trade law

Editor

Mira Burri

First Page

245

Last Page

267

ISBN

9781108919234

Identifier

10.1017/9781108919234.017

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

City or Country

Cambridge

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108919234.017

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