China emerges as digital rights champion with new info privacy law

It's big business in little China!

Just ask Microsoft. They made 64 kajillion-bajillion-crajillion dollars selling service to China for the 12 copies of Windows 10.cn that they special built for their government's best wishes for lucky users and citizens of the People's Republic! Also, they want to check out the source code, for, you know, um, security and generally not saying "how did they do that" while copying the method into a "brand new product that we invented here in China; Windoors 10 Creatives Edition." Excelsior!

wow

a government telling multinationals what they can do ! who'd a thunk that was possible.

Yekutiel Sherman couldn’t believe his eyes.

The Israeli entrepreneur had spent one year designing the product that would make him rich—a smartphone case that unfolds into a selfie stick. He had drawn up prototypes, secured some minimal funds from his family, and launched a crowdfunding campaign.

But one week after his product hit Kickstarter in December 2015, Sherman was shocked to see it for sale on AliExpress—Alibaba’s English-language wholesale site. Vendors across China were selling identical smartphone case selfie-sticks, using the same design Sherman came up with himself.

Sherman had become a victim of China’s lightning-fast copycats. Before he had even found a factory to make his new product, manufacturers in China had spied his idea online, and beaten him to the punch.

https://qz.com/771727/chinas-factories-in-shenzhen-can-copy-products-at-breakneck-speed-and-its-time-for-the-rest-of-the-world-to-get-over-it/

> requiring them to obtain users' permission before sending any data on them outside the country.

I believe you meant "requiring them to obtain government permission before sending any data on them outside the government"