Revised Specification for Certification of Cross-border Transfers of Personal Information Issued in China – Takeaways

By Gabriela Kennedy & Joshua T.K. Woo on December 13, 2022

Posted in APAC, China, Data Transfers, Regulation

The Secretariat of the National Information Security Standardisation Technical Committee (TC260) released a draft revision of the Technical Specification for Certification of Cross-Border Transfers of Personal Information (Certification Specification V2.0) on 8 November 2022, nearly five months after it issued the finalised specification of the same name (Certification Specification V1.0) (see our previous Legal Update on Certification Specification V1.0).