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Alipay, Shein among first Chinese companies to receive personal-information protection certificates

By MLex Staff ( December 26, 2023, 08:52 GMT | Insight) -- Ant Group's digital payment unit Alipay and Chinese e-commerce companies JD.com and Shein have received personal-information protection certificates from the country’s certification center, marking an important step in China’s personal-information protection certification process. But questions remain about whether the certified personal-data processing activities include outbound data transfers because of the regime's implementation difficulties and technical issues, such as on-spot checking when data recipients are in foreign countries.Ant Group's digital payment unit Alipay and Chinese e-commerce companies JD.com and Shein have received personal-information protection certificates from the country’s certification center, marking an important step in China’s personal-information protection certification process....

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