Experts call for stronger global data security

Governments and industries around the world need to better protect data security and personal information and ensure the rule of law in cyberspace, senior officials and information technology industry experts said on Sunday.

Liu Liehong, vice-minister of the Cyberspace Administration of China, said data has become an important national resource that can drive the development of the economy and society.

Big data, cloud computing and artificial intelligence have become the new and inevitable technological trends and people are paying more attention to the security, management and collection of data, especially the data security of children, he said at a sub-forum during the ongoing sixth World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province.