This report analyzes the global data security status quo by summarizing 10 global cases of massive data leakage from 45 publicly-reported data breaches in 2018 and exploring the typical case of Facebook data leakage scandal. Compared with the global situation in 2018 and China’s previous situation in 2017，the report depicts a picture of data leakage in China in 2018：hotels，express delivery and mobile Apps have become serious disaster areas；new data types and ways of leakage are emerging；economic motivation for privacy intrusion is strong；and citizens’ awareness of privacy and data protection is increasingly awakening. In this regard，many countries issued data protection laws and regulations intensively in 2018. EU GDPR led this wave of rules construction. China also implemented the “national standards” for personal information protection and planned comprehensive legislation. This report critically applies Samuel Huntington’s three sets of indicators to evaluate the institutional innovation of “Chinese national standards”，and points out the trend of data protection in the future：the landing of the laws and rules，particularly the promotion of law enforcement will bring more record-breaking fines；and the data protection in the field of artificial intelligence will be the trend of future institutional innovation.