New Chinese Cybersecurity Law to Mean Headaches for Foreign HR Departments

​China will enforce a new cybersecurity law beginning June 1, that may pose several problems for HR professionals charged with keeping data secure in that country, experts tell SHRM Online.One big problem with the Cybersecurity Law of China—which passed in October 2016 and is designed to fight hackers worldwide—is that it requires foreign companies to give the Chinese government sensitive and proprietary information about their software and network equipment, experts say.It also prohibits companies that obtain personal information obtained from Chinese citizens from leaving China’s cyberspace, which makes it impossible for foreign companies to centralize data on customers and employees in China. Major Headaches for HR”Personal information obtained by companies within the territory of the People’s Republic of China must be stored only within mainland China,” the new law states. Kaitlin Fox Hinkle, an attorney at Atlanta-based law firm Fisher Phillips, said this will mean major

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