The Australian Services Roundtable has joined a number of international digital advocacy bodies to raise concerns about China’s draft Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL). As the statement details, “The draft PIPL (Article 40) requires critical information infrastructure operators and personal information processors transferring ‘personal information reaching quantities provided by the State Cybersecurity and Information Department’ to store that information in China.”
The statement argues that data localisation restrictions do not necessarily advance data protection goals while producing a range of negative outcomes for digital trade. The full letter may be read below or downloaded as a pdf.