How Is International Franchising Affected by China's Personal Information and Data Compliance Regime? | Insights
On Aug. 20, 2021, China promulgated the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), which took effect Nov. 1, 2021. Together, the PIPL, the Cybersecurity Law (which came into force June 1, 2017), and the Data Security Law (DSL, which came into force Sept. 1, 2021) form the fundamental legal framework that governs data security and processing of personal information (PI) and non-personal information (mainly the data other than PI) in mainland China.