China will release guidelines this year instructing businesses to collect personal information only when absolutely necessary and delete it immediately after use.
The non-binding guidelines, designed to protect online personal data, are pending final approval by the State Council.
Zhou Hanhua is a researcher at the Institute of Law at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and one of the drafters of the guidelines. He says the move is a very commendable attempt to protect private information.
"The draft borrows ideas from the whole package of global personal information protection methods.
