Recognizing that they are behind the curve compared with other countries with developed privacy law regimes, Chinese authorities have now circulated for public comment draft guidelines governing transmission and storage of personal data on computer systems.

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Its products include integrated circuits that are used in disk drives, solid state drives, high-speed communications systems, computer servers, storage systems, and personal computers.

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The latest incident, which came to light today, was exposed when British financial services giant HSBC Holdings (nyse: HBC - news - people ) began notifying customers who use a popular General Motors-branded MasterCard that their personal information may have been exposed due to a breach in the computer systems of an unnamed national retailer.

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In March, unknown intruders broke into the computer systems of database giant LexisNexis, gaining access to the Social Security numbers and personal data of hundreds of thousands of people.

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