CHINA-PUBLIC SECURITY REGULATIONS: JUDICIAL SYSTEM

 China introduced a new set of rules called “Provisions Concerning the Collection, Extraction, Review, and Judgment of Electronic Data in the Handling of Criminal Cases” on October 1, 2016. The rules were issued jointly by the Supreme People’s Court, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, and the Ministry of Public Security. Experts claim that the rules are intrusive and could mean that henceforth every word said in a Weibo post or WeChat circle could be used against the individual in court. The Provisions appear to put PRC netizens and mobile users at substantially increased risk of criminal prosecution for their online activity. Digital content that is now potentially subject to collection and to be used as evidence in criminal cases now include: Information on web pages, blogs, microblogs, chat groups, and network cloud storage; Correspondence in the form of text messages, email, instant messages, and chat groups; and other data such as account registration, user authentication data, electronic transaction records, and login records.







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