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China Updates Its Anti-Unfair Competition Law to Address “Involutionary” Competition and Abuses of Superior Bargaining Power

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On June 27, 2025, China adopted a revised revision of its Anti-Unfair Competition Law (“AUCL”), which will take effect on October 15, 2025. As one of the two pillars of China’s competition law framework—alongside the...more

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China Monthly Data Protection Update: July 2025

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This monthly report outlines key developments in China’s data protection sector for July. The following events merit special attention: CAC Issues Third Edition of the Data Export Security Assessment Application Guide: On...more

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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

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APAC AI Watch Series | Greater China

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As artificial intelligence continues to reshape industries, understanding the evolving regulatory landscape is more critical than ever. Our new APAC AI Watch series offers in-depth analysis of key legal developments across...more

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China Monthly Data Protection Update: April 2025

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This monthly report outlines key developments in China’s data protection sector for April....more

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U.S. Congress Mandates Wide Range Of Sanctions In Ukraine, Israel, And Taiwan Aid Bill

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On 24 April 2024, President Biden signed into law H.R. 815, “Making Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 2024, and for Other Purposes” (the Act). The long-awaited piece of legislation...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #397 – TikTok and ByteDance File Suit Against the United States

As threatened, TikTok, Inc. and ByteDance, Ltd., the owner of the TikTok app, filed suit against the United States on May 7, 2024, alleging that the Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Aid Package Signed by President Biden Includes Divestiture of TikTok Requirement

President Biden signed a historical aid package into law on Tuesday that includes aid for Ukraine, Israel, and the Indo-Pacific region. The package also includes a bill increasing sanctions on Russian assets and requiring...more

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China passes provisions to relax the cross-border data transfer regime

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China has passed provisions which relax the current cross-border data transfer mechanisms. This comes as welcome news to the international business community, especially those with the need to export data from China in the...more

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Global Impact of China's Data and Cybersecurity Laws

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Over the past few years, China has introduced a range of laws dealing with data privacy and cybersecurity. The most well-known is China's Cybersecurity Law, which came into effect in June 2017. With the recent passing of...more

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[Webinar] PIPL - A Review of China’s New Privacy Law and Insights Into Achieving Compliance and Managing Risks - November 18th,...

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China recently enacted its Personal Information Privacy Law (PIPL), which came into effect November 1, 2021. PIPL has global reach and broadly regulates entities of all industries that process the personal data of Chinese...more

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China Passes the Personal Information Protection Law

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The law will take effect on November 1, 2021 giving companies under two months to ensure their privacy policies and systems comply. On August 20, the Standing Committee of the 13th National People’s Congress of China...more

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China Promulgates New Personal Information Protection Law

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China’s Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL or the final version), following the first two readings in October 2020 and April 2021, was adopted on August 20, 2021 and will become effective on November 1, 2021. The final...more

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[Webinar] Privacy Law Update - Analyzing Recent Developments in U.S. and International Privacy Law - September 28th, 1:00 pm -...

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Over the past few months, there have been numerous developments in U.S. and international privacy law. In the United States, Colorado and Virginia passed consumer privacy laws, and California voters passed a substantial...more

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[Webinar] China / Hong Kong – New Personal Data Laws and The Impact on Businesses - September 7th, 9:30 am - 10:30 am HKT

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Very recently, various new personal data laws and substantial amendments to existing laws have been promulgated in the Greater China region. For example: - 10 June 2021: New data security laws were promulgated in China...more

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The Robins Kaplan Privacy Pulse | China Enacts Sweeping New Data Privacy Law

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On November 1, 2021, China’s new GDPR-like data privacy law goes into effect. With far-reaching scope and harsh penalties for noncompliance, the Personal Information Protection Law is expected to greatly curb data collection...more

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China Rolls Out Critical Information Infrastructure Security Protection Regulations

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China’s State Council on August 17 released the Critical Information Infrastructure Security Protection Regulations (“Regulations”) effective September 1, a key administrative regulation in the implementation of the 2016...more

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China Finalizes Data Security Law to Strengthen Regulation on Data Protection

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On June 10, 2021, the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress passed the long awaited People's Republic of China (China) Data Security Law ("DSL") after a final read of the third draft. The DSL, which takes...more

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China Issues Second Draft of Data Security Law

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Given that the Data Security Law is one of the three fundamental data protection laws in China, the legislative process of the law has attracted much attention. In July 2020, comments were solicited for the first draft of the...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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A game changer? China enacts first e-commerce law

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In stark contrast to the rapid development of e-commerce in China, it has taken nearly five years and no less than four drafts for China to finalise its first e-Commerce Law. The new law will enter into force on 1 January...more

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Trump Administration: 2017 Recap and 2018 Outlook

On January 20, 2017, businessman Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States following a contentious and unconventional 2016 presidential election. Republicans also successfully maintained control...more

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Supreme People’s Court Enhances Data Privacy Protection

In April of 2017, the Supreme People’s Court (“SPC”) and the Supreme People’s Procuratorate (“SPP”) passed and released a new judicial interpretation dealing with criminal infringement of citizens’ personal digital...more

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A Primer on China’s New Cybersecurity Law: Privacy, Cross-Border Transfer Requirements, and Data Localization

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China’s new Cybersecurity Law is one of the most important pieces of privacy and cybersecurity legislation we’ll see this year, and companies of all sizes need to be aware of its requirements – regardless of whether or not...more

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PRC’s General Provisions of the Civil Law Enhance Personal Information Right and Data Protection

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While new legislation introduces the right to one’s personal information and specifies data protection, the definition and scope of lawful uses remains uncertain. Key Points: ..A personal information right is...more

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