To build a ‘Digital China’, the country must first deal with its rampant black market for personal information

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China’s enforcement agencies have struggled to keep up with an increasingly skilled industrial chain of insiders and data brokers.

When Sharon Liu, a finance professional in the eastern Chinese city of Tianjin, bought a flat through an online brokerage platform late last year, she never agreed to give strangers her personal information. Now, up to three times a day, she receives calls from people she has never met who know her full name and home address.

“We have to acknowledge that [the situation of] Chinese citizens’ personal information leakage and infringement is grim,” said Steve Zhao, a partner and intellectual property lawyer at the Beijing-based Gen law firm. Even though the brokers were arrested for selling the data to telemarketing fraudsters in China and South-East Asia, it is too late to remove victims’ information from the internet once it is disseminated.

 

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