China's top court highlights data-crime crackdown
By MLex Staff ( May 8, 2026, 09:10 GMT | Insight) -- China’s top court unveiled five “typical cases” involving personal-information crimes and related offenses, underscoring a multifaceted crackdown as increasingly sophisticated and covert technologies make data crimes harder to detect and police. The Supreme People’s Court said Friday the cases reflect a focus on punishing insider leaks, protecting government and corporate databases, combating online doxxing and imposing harsher penalties on downstream crimes such as telecom fraud and extortion that rely on stolen data.China’s top court unveiled five “typical cases” involving personal-information crimes and related offenses, underscoring a multifaceted crackdown as increasingly sophisticated and covert technologies make data crimes harder to detect and police....
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