China is in the early stages of setting up a data protection regulatory system to police Facebook’s Chinese...

China is in the early stages of setting up a data protection regulatory system to police Facebook’s Chinese counterparts. Chinese companies are increasingly finding that the days of collecting data without public scrutiny are over—and Chinese consumers are vocally standing up for their own privacy in ways not seen before. For this reason, a number of scholars hailed 2018 as the year when the Chinese public awakened to privacy.

Unexpected.
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https://slate.com/technology/2019/02/china-consumer-data-protection-privacy-surveillance.html