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China's Unprecedented Cyber Law Signals Its Intent To Protect a Precious Commodity: Data (technologyreview.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: An aggressive new cybersecurity and data protection law in China that goes into effect today will have global ripple effects, and could serve as a model for other governments. But the Chinese government has also left many parts of the law vague -- likely an intentional move meant to allow the country to stake out its own sense of "cyber sovereignty" while waiting to see how the U.S., Europe, and others decide to regulate the flow of data across international borders. The new law is a resounding announcement from China that it intends to be a global player in controlling perhaps the most precious commodity of the digital economy: data. It's hard to know how the law will actually change things because the most controversial aspects of it are so vague. Among them is a requirement that certain companies submit their products to the government for cybersecurity checks, which may even involve reviewing source code. How often it would be required, and how the government will determine which products must be reviewed is unknown. This could come into play as part of China's broader regulatory push to expand law enforcement's power to access data during criminal investigations. Another vague directive calls for companies to store certain data within the country's borders, in the interest of safeguarding sensitive information from espionage or other foreign meddling. The government has delayed the implementation of this change until the end of 2018, however.
This is a joke right????
China is a communist dictatorship run by thugs and gangs. They can do anything they want to oppress the people that live there.
Remember that time Donald Trump was paid $500,000 to give a speech in Moscow?
Oh no, wait... that was BILL CLINTON.
Remember that time Trump failed to disclose Russian donors to his foundation before he served as Sec of State?
Oh no, wait, that was HILLARY CLINTON
Crooked corrupt liars...
Remember the time Trump was business partners with Russian govt? His company received $35M from Russia?
Oh no wait, that was JOHN PODESTA
Crooked corrupt liars...
Remember the time Trump scored $145M from shareholders of a uranium company that was sold to the Russians?
Oh no, wait... that was HILLARY CLINTON again.
Crooked corrupt liars...
Remember the time that President Trump gave $150 Billion to a terrorist state and a sworn enemy of the United States. Then later shipped pallets full of small denomination unmarked bills to the same terrorist state and sworn enemy?
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Crooked corrupt liars...
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With such a target-rich environment there, remind me again why we are still investigating President Trump? Especially after a year of CIA, FBI, NSA, 2 Congressional investigations that found not a whiff of evidence.
Is something else going on besides "following the evidence"?
Remember when ANONYMOUS and WIKILEAKS LEAKED REAL DOCUMENTS and the Media and the Globalists poo poo THOSE REAL EMAILS, Including COMEY-who rimjobs Obama- but the ENEMEDIA PRESSLITUTES LAME STREAM MEDIA and the Globalists now use "anonymous" and false accusations on trumpt with Russia!?
The REAL LEAKS lose to dis-information! FUCK!
China is only speeding things along with shit like this.
China concerned about intellectual property. LOL.
The value of data is an illusion, in reality the uses to which it is currently put will likely become illegal, so zero value, just a cost. So it is with regard to security aspects and where the data is held, who can access it and what they can do with it. Easiest security response crack down on it's collection, only sufficient for taxation purposes and medical purposes. The reality is targeted marketing doesn't generates the profits claimed, else they would be bragging about the numbers, instead they pump the illusion with generalisations and most of the marketing is targeted at the advertisers.
Likely countries will institute data controls across the board, all locally stored, all locally audited and generating local employment.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
Disappointing discussion. No humor and no consideration of the potential use of the new law for censorship.
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
Data?
Document files?
Software?
Books?
Knowledge?
Text?
Statistics?
Meta-data?
Since WHEN did "data" become a commodity? What a nonsense idea!
Terrible headline!
Finally, those little networked pieces of .. things might get a review process. World will be safer as a result. I hope.
this is a water-shed moment. ...
it doesnt matter if china can make nukes, or rockets or tanks or stealth fighters because of leaked intellectual property (IP).
the linch pin is IP pertaining to retaining data.
all the paper laws can be made, if the real manufacturers of data retention technology don't agree, then they will be barred from selling their products in china but then china will be in a situation where they don't have the IP to COPY the technology to retain data and thus to remember how much money and dept and unfair laws they have made
me, personally, i'd stop selling harddisks and ssds in china and see how it goes ...
Just data from /dev/random or something specific?
China cares about data?
Talk of security in this instance is a smokescreen.
China wants to review source code so they can copy it, not to "ensure security".
They also have no interest in securing data within the country except to keep it themselves and scrape it for anything valuable to the government (or engage in censorship).
This is about a powergrab with security as a facade to sucker schmucks like the people that wrote this synopsis into thinking China cares about them.
Yes, we copied it right. Any questions?
Murphy was an optimist