02 Aug 2021
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On Friday, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology’s (MIIT) Network Security Bureau invited 12 companies for tea.
The lucky 12 included Alibaba, Tencent, Meituan, JD.com, ByteDance, and Pinduoduo.
MIIT’s message was simple: Take the upcoming Data Security Law (DSL) seriously...
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