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Beijing to expand cross-border data transfer pilot

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What happened: On April 29, the Beijing municipal cyberspace administration (CAC) announced plans to greatly expand pilot efforts to facilitate cross-border data flow. First and foremost, it will expand the applicability of data export negative lists from the local Free Trade Zone (FTZ) to the entir...



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