China is building data exchanges, exporting governance via Digital Silk Road, and treating data as a national asset — not a privacy right

The European Union treats data as a privacy right. The United States treats it as a corporate asset. China treats it as a factor of production, a national economic resource on par with land, labour, capital, and technology. That distinction, which sounds like an abstraction, is producing a data governance framework that is structurally different […] This story continues at The Next Web