China mulls amendment to cybersecurity law to strengthen legal responsibilities
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
Chinese lawmakers began reviewing a draft amendment to the Cybersecurity Law to strengthen legal responsibilities.
The draft was submitted on Monday to the ongoing session of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, the national legislature, for its first reading.
The draft stipulates better alignment with relevant laws, including the Data Security Law, the Personal Information Protection Law and the Administrative Penalty Law, to ensure a more coherent legal framework.
It also proposes establishing differentiated legal responsibilities for various violations, covering areas such as network operation security and information security.
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
