China Releases Proposed Guidelines for Cross-Border Data Transfer Security Assessment

On May 27, 2017, the National Information Security Standardization Technical Committee (全国信息安全标准化技术委员会) published for public comment a draft of the proposed Guidelines for Cross-Border Data Transfer Security Assessment (数据出境安全评估指南) (the “Draft Security Assessment Guidelines”). The Draft Security Assessment Guidelines, if adopted, provide an analytical framework for determining the kind of security assessment(s) that should be conducted, and the standards that apply to such security assessment(s), in connection with a transfer of Personal Information (as defined below) and/or Critical Data (as defined below) out of China (a “Cross-Border Data Transfer”).