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Comment: Chinese prosecutors emerging as important regulatory force in data protection

By Xu Yuan ( June 4, 2021, 07:15 GMT | Comment) -- Local governments in China have been pushing for the use of public-interest lawsuits as a regulatory tool from as early as 2019, and the trend is now gathering steam with more regional cases being publicized and supported. This has given the country’s prosecutors, which have the power to prosecute criminal cases and supervise the courts, an additional power to target cases involving data abuse that don’t necessarily constitute a crime....

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