Privacy concerns in China's smart city campaign: The deficit of China's Cybersecurity Law

Fan Yang and Jian Xu

Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies from Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University

Abstract: Many cities around the world are increasingly embedding technological infrastructure in urban spaces. These infrastructures aim to collect vast amounts of data from citizens with an apparent purpose of improving public services. This article discusses privacy concerns generated by China's nationwide smart city campaign and further investigates why China's latest Cybersecurity Law is not adequate to address the risks to citizens' privacy. We argue that there is no functional privacy law in China that would apply to most data collected by smart city infrastructure; nor is there any law that would protect any personal data collected under this framework. We therefore propose practical suggestions to better protect citizens' data in China's ongoing smart city campaign.

Keywords: big data; China; Cybersecurity Law; privacy; smart cities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 11 pages
Date: 2018-10-05
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Published in Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies, September 2018, pages 533-543

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