China, the world’s biggest online community with an estimated 989 million users in 2020, will soon have one of the strictest data privacy laws following the passage of new regulations by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC), state media Xinhua and other news outlets reported on Friday (Aug. 20).
The law, which will take effect on Nov. 1, stipulates that any handling of people’s personal information should have a logical objective and will be restricted to the “minimum scope necessary to achieve the goals of handling” data, according to Reuters.