In August 2024, China Judgements Online published a ruling issued by the Guangzhou Internet Court on September 8, 2023, in a case widely regarded as China’s first judicial decision addressing cross-border personal information...more
On July 26, 2023, the Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force (“FLETF”), chaired by the Department of Homeland Security, issued updates to its Strategy to Prevent the Importation of Goods Mined, Produced, or Manufactured with...more
ust over a year ago, on 21 April 2022, the seven economies (Canada, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, and the USA) participating in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Cross-Border...more
The regulatory landscape in China around data protection and flows continues to develop. Since the 2017 Cybersecurity Law, China has been refining the legal and regulatory framework for data protection—it has implemented new...more
On August 20, 2021, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC) of the People’s Republic of China (PRC or China) enacted the Personal Information Protection Law (PIP Law), which will come into effect on...more
It is no overstatement to say that 2019 saw a torrid pace of development of Asia-Pacific region data protection and cybersecurity laws. Such was the rate and complexity of change that it is not straightforward to distil...more
As global focus on data protection and cyber security law and regulation continues to increase, the Asia-Pacific region is increasingly an area of concern for global compliance programs. ...more
2016 was an eventful year in the Asia-Pacific region, as data protection and cyber security issues increasingly feature in the news headlines in the Asia-Pacific region as they do elsewhere, our annual publication, the 2017...more
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Published, Commencing Two-Year Countdown to Application. One of the most important EU legislative initiatives in recent years, and a landmark in privacy regulation worldwide, the GDPR...more