Specification for Certification of Cross-border Transfers of Personal Information Released by China – Key Provisions and Takeaways

By Gabriela Kennedy & Joshua T.K. Woo on July 14, 2022

Posted in APAC, China, Data Transfers, Privacy / Data Protection

On 24 June 2022, the Secretariat of the National Information Security Standardisation Technical Committee (TC260) issued the Technical Specification for Certification of Cross-Border Transfers of Personal Information (the Certification Specification), eight weeks after it first issued the draft of the same name (the Draft). The relatively speedy finalisation of the Certification Specification is a reflection of the emphasis being placed by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) on cross-border data transfers.