Nov.30 (China IP News) -- The 12th National People's Congress of China recently passed Cyber Security Law, which would be a basic law in China's cyber field. The Law will be put into force on June 1st, 2017, and will be focused on personal information protection, cyber intellectual property protection, and anti- cyber fraud.

According to the law, the State Council and the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities shall make overall plans and provide more financial investment to support cyber security technology in key industries and projects, to promote researching and application in cyber security technology, to popularize safe and credible cyber products and services, to protect cyber intellectual property, and to encourage companies, research agencies and universities taking part in China's cyber security technological innovation projects.

To address the issue of personal information protection, the law rules that, any cyber product or service may collect users' information shall express the function to users and obtain the consent first; any ISP shall not reveal, tamper and damage users' personal information collected; any person or organization shall not steal or illegally obtain users' personal information, and shall not illegally sell or supply users' personal information to others. The law also ruled the responsibility to be borne by the offender.