Law note · China
Criminal Law, Arts. 285-286 (unauthorized computer intrusion and system destruction)
What it asks of an app
- Do not intrude into a computer system to obtain its data, or exercise illegal control over it, where the conduct is serious (Art. 285).
- Do not damage or destroy a computer information system's function, data, or programs (Art. 286).
When LexLint raises it
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What we found
Article 285(1) criminalizes intrusion into state-affairs, defense, or advanced-science computer systems; Art. 285(2), added by the 2009 Amendment VII, reaches intrusion into other systems, or other technical means, to obtain their data or illegally control them, where the circumstances are serious; Art. 286 criminalizes destroying a computer system's function, data, or programs.
These target circumvention and intrusion, not mere collection of what a system already makes public, and no top-level case construing authorization as narrowly as the United States' Van Buren was found for a scraping fact pattern.
This instrument is secondary-sourced only: official primary text was tried at eight URLs across five official domains (npc.gov.cn, flk.npc.gov.cn, spp.gov.cn, court.gov.cn, mps.gov.cn) across two research passes and every attempt returned either a JavaScript shell, a server error, or (at flk.npc.gov.cn) a single-page app whose article text loads by a client-side mechanism outside this session's reach; no CAPTCHA was hit anywhere.
This is a confirmed access-tier gap, not a finding about the law, and it must not be presented as verified against primary text.
Primary source
Lawinfochina/PKULAW English translation (secondary publisher)
official npc.gov.cn, flk.npc.gov.cn, spp.gov.cn, court.gov.cn, and mps.gov.cn text confirmed unreachable this wave