【Purpose/significance】The state is the largest processor of personal information. This paper analyzes the compliance contin⁃

gent obligations and specific practices of China's government data open platform to process personal information, aiming to guide its compliance with handling personal information in a compliant manner and improve the level of privacy protection.

【Method/process】By investigating the personal information protection policy texts of 137 government data open platforms, we coded them in a bottom-up rooted theory, and used content analysis to construct 35 sub-categories and 9 main categories, and specifically scanned the problems of government data open platforms in personal information handling in 3 dimensions: informing content, information security manage⁃ment, and personal information rights protection.【Result/conclusion】According to the scanning results, the targeted countermeasures are put forward: enhance the compliance of informing the content of processing of personal information content; strengthen the informa⁃tion security management construction of the platform; and protect the personal information rights and interests of information subjects.【Innovation/limitation】This paper analyzes the personal information processing dilemma of the government data open platform from an empirical perspective and provides corresponding countermeasures, but the description of the government's processing of personal in⁃formation is not comprehensive enough and has certain limitations.