Regulation of work of the IT companies in China

2015: Adoption of the anti-terrorist law

At the end of December, 2015 in China adopted the anti-terrorist law, the first in the history of the country, within which the IT companies will have to open if necessary to intelligence agencies of interpretation of information. This initiative was criticized in Washington.

The anti-terrorist law which was finally approved by the authorities of Celestial Empire is disputable and contradictory as it obliges the telecommunication and technology companies to transfer to the government confidential data, including encryption keys.

At the end of December, 2015 in China adopted the anti-terrorist law, the first in the history of the country, within which the IT companies will have to open if necessary to intelligence agencies of interpretation of information

Legislators of the People's Republic of China claim that the adopted law will not have a negative impact on activity of the IT companies and will not result in need of implementation of tabs or loss of the intellectual property rights.

Authors suggested to fix in the first editions of the bill at the legislative level implementation of tabs and to prohibit placement of data on servers outside China, however these measures were not applied. The government was limited only to a possibility of receiving the keys used for the organization of the encoded communications.

According to the new law, all companies working in China will be obliged "provide the technology help and cooperate with intelligence agencies for prevention and investigation of cases of terrorism". As experts note, in practice the law will mean complete and unconditional subordination to all requirements of the Chinese intelligence agencies on the first demand of.

In the West expressed deep concern to the Chinese anti-terrorist law as it, according to the U.S. Government, violates human rights and in fact is method of pressure upon the foreign companies. The U.S. President Barack Obama said that he brought up a question of the law at negotiations with the Chinese President Xi Jinping.^[1]

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