Last month, the People's Republic of China (PRC) announced plans to consolidate the country's data protection functions into a single national data bureau tasked with regulating data privacy and data transfers for a nation of over 1.4 billion people. The announcement came almost a year and a half after China's Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) and Data Security Law (DSL) came into effect, which regulate the protection of personal information and the transfer of data out of China, respectively.