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Five Years of PIPL: The Supreme People's Procuratorate's Eight Typical Cases on Personal Information
On November 2, 2026, the day after the fifth anniversary of the Personal Information Protection Law taking effect, the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) issued eight typical cases on protecting citizens' personal information. Seven are prosecutions for the crime of infringing upon citizens' personal information (Criminal Law Article 253a); the eighth is a civil public-interest suit. DCC translates the SPP's release in full and maps the eight cases for counsel. Four points stand out. Information that is already public is 'not a public resource': compiling rental listings and selling them abroad, beyond the purpose for which they were posted, is the crime (Case 5). A passenger's upcoming flight is 'whereabouts and tracks' information, the most tightly protected criminal category (Case 6). Three of the eight leaks ran through people with legitimate access: insiders at source units, an airline's outsourced call-center agent, and bribed HR staff (Cases 1, 6, 7). And procuratorates now attach public-interest damages to PI crimes, set by sensitivity, scale, public value and cross-border risk rather than by what the offender earned: RMB 4 million against one recruitment-data seller (Case 7) and RMB 1.5 million against two people who scraped 3.86 million cancer-hospital records and moved them overseas, when their proven profit was RMB 10,800 (Case 8). The full notice and all eight cases are on the DCC law page.