Supervision of Cross-border Data Flow: EU Experience and China's Reference
As a new factor of production, data plays an increasingly important role in economic and social life. Data flow can create economic benefits but also poses security risks. Entities such as the state, data operators, and data owners need to regulate and protect the security of data. After decades of building a regulatory system for data security and orderly flow, the EU has formed a relatively strict, comprehensive, and multi-level regulatory system for data security and orderly flow by the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), and corresponding regulatory agencies have been established within the framework of the rules, and an operational mechanism for data protection agencies covering both the entire region and member states has been established. Drawing on the experience and practices of the European Union, we can improve China's data security and orderly flow regulatory rule system by accelerating the development of data classification standards, refine and clarify the rights, responsibilities and obligations of different entities in data flow, participating in bilateral and multilateral rule construction. In terms of the establishment and operation of regulatory agencies, a"1+X"data protection agency system can be established, and a vertical and horizontal operation mechanism can be formed to promote the safe and orderly flow of data, further unleashing data value.
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