By Charles McDermid
China is fast-tracking the country’s first law to protect privacy and personal data, a long-awaited move heralded by pro-Beijing media but questioned by experts for not restricting state surveillance and for forcing economies to pick a side in the escalating tech war with the U.S.
The National People’s Congress, China’s powerful legislative body, last week released for public review the first draft of the Personal Information Protection Law.
If approved in the coming weeks, as expected, it would become China’s first unified national law on the protection of personal information.
No similar legislation exists in the United States.
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