China is beefing up national security measures by expanding its protections of state secrets to include a broad category of “work secrets.”
The new rules, set to take effect May 1, describe how precautions taken for state secrets should also apply to unclassified information known as work secrets.
That article on work secrets “is the most problematic,” said Jeremy Daum, a senior fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center, noting “there is a risk that individual departments will overzealously identify matters as ‘work secrets.'”