Personal information law comes into effect 个人信息保护法正式实施

陈小将

China's law on personal information protection went into effect on Nov 1. The law, adopted at the 30th session of the 13th National People's Congress Standing Committee in August, has detailed provisions to strengthen the protection of personal information, especially online platform users.
十三届全国人大常委会第三十次会议于2021年8月表决通过《中华人民共和国个人信息保护法》，自2021年11月1日起施行。该法对加强个人信息保护，特别是网络平台用户个人信息保护作出详细规定。

Activities such as collection, application, processing and trading of personal information will be strictly monitored, and any infringements will be punished.
按照法律规定，个人信息的收集、应用、处理和交易活动将受到严格监管，相关侵权行为将予以惩处。

When gathering data for the purpose of business decisions, data collectors are forbidden from engaging in discriminatory practices that harm the interests of consumers, such as differentiating prices through user profiling.
在利用个人信息大数据分析进行商业决策时，禁止个人信息处理者采取损害消费者利益的歧视性做法，不得对个人在交易价格等交易条件上实行不合理的差别待遇。