China Seeks Comments on Updated Draft of Cross-Border Data Transfer Security Assessment Standard

China Seeks Comments on Updated Draft of Cross-Border Data Transfer Security Assessment Standard

August 31, 2017, Covington Alert

On August 31, 2017, China’s National Information Security Standardization Technical Committee (“NISSTC”), a standard-setting committee jointly supervised by the Standardization Administration of China (“SAC”) and the Cyberspace Administration of China (“CAC”), released an updated draft of the Information Security Technology - Guidelines for Data Cross-Border Transfer Security Assessment for public comment (the “draft Standard”) (official Chinese version available here.) The comment period for this draft national standard ends on October 13, 2017.