Recognizing that they are behind the curve compared with other countries with developed privacy law regimes, Chinese authorities have now circulated for public commentdraft guidelines governing transmission and storage of personal data on computer systems.
The broad outlines of this bill are already known: the government published a White Paper just before Christmas, and a draft bill will be published shortly to allow time for public comment.
The draft guidelines will be published Thursday in the Federal Register and will be open for public commentfor 60 days, after which the working group that developed them will reconvene.
On June 2, 2011, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) released a draft "National Action Plan: Priorities for Managing Freshwater Resources in a Changing Climate, " for public review and comment.