China to legislate on personal information protection, AI: spokesperson

People interact with a robot for reception and guidance at a hospital in Hefei, east China's Anhui Province. (Xinhua/Liu Junxi)

BEIJING, March 4 (Xinhua) -- China plans to make a personal information protection law, in a bid to fight against improper collection, abuse and leak of citizen's personal information, a spokesperson for the annual session of the country's top legislature said Monday.

Zhang Yesui, spokesperson for the second session of the 13th National People's Congress (NPC), said at a press conference that the NPC Standing Committee will also work on a number of laws relevant to artificial intelligence (AI). Enditem