China tightens rules for online ride-hailing firms’ data handling

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China’s Ministry of Transport on Friday tightened existing rules governing how online ride-hailing companies should handle and share their data with regulators, updating similar rules announced in 2018.

Data generated by ride-hailing platforms cannot be used for commercial purposes, must be stored for at least two years in China, compared so six months previously, and it cannot be exported or shown to outside entities without regulatory authorisation, according to the updated rules.

”Periodically carry out security investigations, promptly rectify security risks and loopholes discovered, establish and complete a whole-process data security management system, and take necessary measures to prevent data from being tampered with, destroyed, leaked, or illegally acquired or illegally used,” read one of the measures.