China to create a new central agency to oversee flow of data: WSJ

Beijing intends to set up a new national data bureau that will become the top overseer of data-related issues, the Journal reported. The move centralizes power under one agency rather than the multiple bodies that now oversee information management, including the Cyberspace Administration of China.Sign up to receive the daily top stories from the National Post, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.

President Xi Jinping is moving to consolidate the Communist Party’s hold over the world’s second-biggest economy, touting plans for sweeping changes to China’s bureaucracy and more influence within private companies. The shift comes at a crucial time for China’s economy, which is growing at closer to its slowest pace in decades following years of strict COVID restrictions and a wider geopolitical spat with the U.S.

Beijing has shown suspicion in recent years of the enormous amounts of data that private firms are amassing in the mobile era, a key reason behind a sweeping government crackdown on companies like Ant Group Co. and Didi Global Inc. that began in late 2020. The envisioned data regulator would have powers to investigate the use of software algorithms to manipulate data or encourage internet addiction, the Journal reported. It could also identify cybersecurity vulnerabilities and rule on whether multinational companies operating within the country can export data abroad, the newspaper added.

It’s unclear how the various agencies that now deal with data, from the CAC to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, will work with the new body, the Journal said.

Chinese FBI, NSA? We know your games. Using our money invading our privacies. 😡😡😡

C-11 ' Justin Mao Style ' Not often Canada can claim influence over China but I guess we should give Trudeau and Freeland their dues on this one.

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