Hui Zhou will present a working paper – Rules for Thee but Not for Me: Selective Privacy Enforcement in Chinese Court Judgments – on China’s privacy litigation at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), scheduled for September 11–14, 2025 in Vancouver, Canada. As part of the VW-funded Privacy China project, the paper examines how the Chinese judiciary addresses privacy disputes, drawing on 6,370 court judgments. The findings reveal selective privacy enforcement in China: plaintiffs are more likely to win a case when suing a private entity than when the defendant is connected to the public sector. The 2021 Personal Information Protection Law has improved plaintiffs’ prospects in civil lawsuits and has also had implications for criminal charges. The paper indicates that privacy laws can serve as an important tool for safeguarding citizens’ right to privacy, though their effectiveness may be constrained in authoritarian contexts. The manuscript is under review.