Encouraging the reasonable and effective utilization of data in accordance with the law, guaranteeing the orderly and free flow of data in accordance with the law, and promoting the development of a digital economy with (data) as a key element.
The Data Security Law of the People's Republic of China*** and the State of China has been adopted by the 29th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China on June 10, 2021, and is hereby promulgated to come into force from September 1, 2021 onwards.
The Data Security Law is China's first specialized law on data security and an important law in the field of national security, ***7 chapters and 55 articles.On June 10, 2021, the Data Security Law of the People's Republic of China*** and the People's Republic of China was voted on and passed by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and came into force on September 1, 2021.
The Data Security Law is the first specialized law on data security in China, and an important law in the field of national security.
With the formal introduction of the Data Security Law, China's network laws and regulations system has been further improved, providing an important legal basis for subsequent legislation, law enforcement and judicial practice, and providing strong support for the safe and healthy development of the digital economy, and demonstrating to the world the "Chinese program" of data security governance.
The Data Security Law is China's first data security law, which for the first time includes data as a "key factor of production," and has led to the introduction of standards and rules in various industries.
Purpose and significance of the data security law:
1, the regulation of data to achieve a legal basis
With the emergence of data security hot events in recent years, such as data leakage, ransomware, personal information abuse, etc., have demonstrated that the need for data protection is more and more urgent, and therefore there is a need to separate a law for the field of data security to strengthen the data security protection. the field of data safety and security to strengthen the regulation of data.
2. Enhancing the national data security guarantee capacity
Data security is an important part of national security, and at present, with the use of new technologies such as "big things, cloud, intelligence and mobility," the use of full-scenario, large-scale data application poses a serious threat to national security, and therefore, in order to effectively enhance the capacity of data security guarantee, a law is needed to effectively safeguard data security, and to ensure that data security is protected. Therefore, in order to effectively enhance the ability to guarantee data security, a law is needed to effectively maintain data security.
3. It promotes the development of digital economy and innovative production elements, which have a great economic value of their own, and the release of the law marks the state's encouragement of reasonable and effective utilization of data in accordance with the law, guarantees the free flow of data in an orderly manner in accordance with the law, and promotes the development of the digital economy with data as the key element.
4. Expanded scope of data protection
Data, as referred to in the Data Security Law, refers to any record of information in electronic or non-electronic form, including electronic data and non-electronic forms of data, which puts forward a wider range of requirements on the scope of data security and protection, as well as a more complete protection of data.
5. Promoting data security through data exploitation and utilization
The Data Security Law encourages the reasonable and effective utilization of data in accordance with the law, guarantees the orderly and free flow of data in accordance with the law, promotes the development of the digital economy with data as the key element, and enhances the well-being of the people.
6. Deepening the Data Security Institution
In the context of the big data era, the digital transformation of government affairs, society and cities is developing rapidly. The establishment of a data security management system in accordance with this law can clarify the main body of data responsibility, from the unification and landability, combined with the existing data business construction needs and construction of a comprehensive optimization of the management system, so as to provide rule of law protection for the healthy development of China's digital transformation, and to provide a legal basis for the construction of a smart city, digital government, digital society.