New Cross-Border Data Developments Relax Some Compliance Burdens

Key Takeaways

• China’s cyber regulator has eased compliance burdens for sectors like tourism, shipping, and financial services, and has relaxed volume thresholds in some cases.
• New standards introduced by TC260 aim to clarify the categorization of important data, providing a non-binding framework to guide regulators and companies.
• Despite these changes, ambiguities around key definitions remain.