CHINA DENIES REQUIRING COMPANIES, INDIVIDUALS TO GIVE DATA IN UNLAWFUL MANNER

BEIJING (Reuters) - The Chinese government "has never and will never" require companies or individuals to collect data for or provide data to it in a way that violates the law, China's foreign ministry said on Friday.

The ministry spoksperson was responding to a question about six Chinese companies including TikTok, Shein, Xiaomi, which have been named in a privacy complaint filed by Austrian advocacy group Noyb claiming the firms were unlawfully sending European Union user data to China.

(Reporting by Eduardo Baptista; Writing by Liz Lee; Editing by Christian Schmollinger)

2025-01-17T07:43:58Z