On March 29, 2018, a website dedicated to renting personal homes to travelers informed its Chinese hosts that it will begin sharing user data with Chinese government agencies to comply with the country's regulation (source document in Chinese). China requires all hotels to report guest information to the police, and travelers staying in private homes are supposed to register that information within 24 hours of arriving in the country.

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