Shanghai's Lingang Issues China's First Cross-Border Data Transfer List
The Lingang Special Area, a testbed for economic and trade policies in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, has released China’s first cross-border data transfer list, allowing firms incorporated in the zone to transfer out of the country the types of data listed without further government security checks.
The Lingang authorities issued the list and supporting operational guidelines on May 17 for a 12-month trial period. The list includes 64 data types in 11 application scenarios in three sectors: cross-country production and manufacturing of intelligent connected vehicles; drug research, development, and clinical trials; and fund market research information sharing.
According to the requirements, data handlers only need to register the intended outbound data on the public service management platform set up by the zone’s authorities, and complete the filing, backup, and certification of the data to ensure its compliance, security, and orderly transfer.
Allowing Tesla to send its electric vehicles' data out of China is significant in driving the development of the carmaker's Full Self-Driving system, an industry professional told Yicai. It will help the company build its artificial intelligence-driving technology, the person added.
Tesla’s FSD is an advanced driver-assistance system designed to provide a high level of automation.
Tesla built data centers in China to localize its data storage after several Chinese government agencies jointly published a new auto data safety management policy in October 2021.
As China's first scenario-based list for the overseas flow of vehicle data, Lingang’s list has 23 auto data types in four typical application scenarios: cross-border production and manufacturing; R&D tests; after-sales services; and the international trade in used cars.
The Lingang authorities will update and expand the application scenarios based on the list. General data lists for more fields such as banks' international trade financing guarantees, international trade settlement letters of credit, reinsurance, and shipping will also be released.
When the conditions are ripe, the authorities will also issue scenario-based negative lists that better serve various entities' cross-border data needs.
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