Advising a Chinese IT company on personal data processing issues

CLS advised a world-class Chinese tech company specializing in artificial intelligence (AI) and speech technologies on processing users’ voice data in accordance with Russian laws and delineating data processing roles with local partners.

CLS associates conducted a comprehensive legal analysis of voice data regulations in the Russian Federation in relation to the client’s business processes and developed the most suitable model of interaction between the client and local partners, delineating the roles of the operator and the processor of personal data, as well as analyzed the issues of cross-border transfer of depersonalized data, its localization and the possibility of legitimate use of data for machine learning.