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China Monthly Data Protection Update: May 2025

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This monthly report outlines key developments in China’s data protection sector for May. The following events merit special attention...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Decoded - Technology Law Insights, V 5, Issue 5, June 2024

We are pleased to announce that several of the firm’s practice groups and attorneys were recognized in the 2024 edition of Chambers USA, a directory of leading law firms and attorneys. Chambers and Partners annually...more

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Trends and Moments that Defined 2022 & Predictions for 2023

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While there have been major developments in areas such as data security, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence over the past year, threat actors are becoming increasingly aggressive, sophisticated, and in some cases,...more

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China’s Largest Potential Data Privacy Breach Provides Cautionary Tale for International Employers: 5 Steps Your Business Should...

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Hackers allegedly stole the personal data of over 1 billion Chinese residents from a police database in Shanghai earlier this year – and the largest potential data privacy breach in the nation’s history should serve as a...more

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Ankura CTIX FLASH Update - August 2022

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Ransomware/Malware Activity - Twitter Confirms Data Breach Affecting 5.4 Million Account Profiles - On August 5, 2022, Twitter confirmed it has suffered a data breach after receiving a report of a vulnerability through...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - March 2022 #2

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CYBERSECURITY - Chinese APT41 Attacking State Networks - Although we are receiving frequent alerts from CISA and the FBI about the potential for increased cyber threats coming out of Russia, China continues its cyber...more

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Part 3 of 5: the PIPL and the Personal Information Security Specification

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In Part 2 of this series, we discussed how the Personal Information Protection Law (“PIPL”), the centerpiece of China’s personal information (“PI”) protection law, needs to be read in conjunction with other relevant laws,...more

Alston & Bird

The Digital Download – Alston & Bird’s Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Newsletter – February 2022

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 Selected Developments in U.S. Law - SEC Proposed Rule Will Require Private Funds to Report Certain Cyber Events On January 26, 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed new rules to enhance hedge fund...more

Epiq

Privacy Roundup Part Two: Significant International Updates

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Last week’s blog detailed the wave of state legislation that occurred in the U.S. during 2021. It is no surprise that there were also many data privacy developments abroad. It is crucial that organizations affected by...more

Lighthouse

2021 Data Privacy Overview: New Regulations and Guidance

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While everyone hoped that 2021 would be less tumultuous than 2020, it certainly did not turn out that way in the end. The same was true in the world of data privacy – with sweeping new data protection regulations and guidance...more

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China’s Initial Draft Regulations on the Management of Online Data Security: Important Takeaways

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On November 14, 2021, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) released draft Regulations on the Management of Online Data Security (the “Regulations”) for China’s data privacy and security laws, including the...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

FBI: More Awareness, Due Diligence Needed To Fight China in New ‘Space Race’ for Data

Report on Patient Privacy 21, no. 10 (October, 2021) - Conducting a risk analysis is a basic tenet of security compliance, with the overarching goal of understanding where protected health information (PHI) “lives” in an...more

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[Webinar] China Data Protection Legislation in the Making: Implications Beyond China’s Borders - June 29th, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT

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China's draft Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) has just gone through the second reading and is now near final form and expected to be finalized very soon. Once promulgated, it will be the first comprehensive law on...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Update on the State of Privacy Law in China

China is continuing to move forward with its first comprehensive privacy law. China recently issued a second version of the draft Personal Information Protection Law (Draft PIPL) which will be open for public comments until...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #281 – Preparing for Cyber Warfare: A Survival List

The United States government, states, municipalities, and private companies all have been trying to defend themselves from cyber warfare from foreign adversarial governments, including Russia, China, and North Korea, for...more

Jones Day

Jones Day Global Privacy & Cybersecurity Update | Vol. 25

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UNITED STATES - Regulatory—Policy, Best Practices, and Standards - Cybersecurity Standards Issued for Government Contractors - On January 31, the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and...more

Hogan Lovells

Coronavirus and Data Protection: Europe’s Data Protection Authorities’ Views

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Data protection authorities from around the world are stepping in to provide their input and guidance on the matter of data processing activities and the fight against the coronavirus.  Hogan Lovells’ global Privacy and...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - March 2020 #2

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City of Durham, NC Hit With Ryuk Ransomware - Another city—Durham, North Carolina—has become the victim of a ransomware attack stemming from a Russian hacker group following a successful phishing scheme. After falling...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - February 2020 #2

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Ransomware Attacks Predicted to Occur Every 11 Seconds in 2021 with a Cost of $20 Billion - Confirming what we are seeing in the field, cybersecurity firm Cybersecurity Ventures has predicted that, globally, businesses in...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - February 2020

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Researchers at Sentinel One and Dragos have detected malicious code, called EKANS or Snake, that has been designed specifically to target industrial control systems (ICS), including those of oil refineries, manufacturing...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Cyber Criminals Using Coronavirus Concern to Assist with Intrusions

Concern over the spreading coronavirus from China is legitimate and real. The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the coronavirus a global health emergency, and the United States and other countries are limiting...more

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Chinese Regulation of Children's Personal Data Goes into Effect

On October 1, 2019, China’s new regulation to protect personal data related to children – called the “Measures on Online Protection of Children’s Personal Data” – went into effect. As we wrote in June, when a draft of the...more

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China’s Draft Cybersecurity Measures Suggest Increased Focus on Data Security

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On 28 May 2019, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) released the “Data Security Management Measures (Draft for Comments)” (Draft Measures) (unofficial English translation here), containing detailed rules to expand...more

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China's Internet Regulator Drafts COPPA-Like Rules for Children's Data Privacy

In early June, the Cyberspace Administration of China released for public comment new draft regulations applicable to the collection of personal information relating to children under 14 by online service providers. The...more

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China's first data protection measures lifting its veils

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On 28 May 2019, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) released the draft Measures on the Administration of Data Security (Data Security Measures, see our in-house English translation here) for public consultation. ...more

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