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June 8, 2022
The World Bank approved a credit of $40.7 million for the digital economy project in Mongolia on Monday.
June 7, 2022
The insurance and ‘insurtech’ markets in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) offer significant opportunities to European and Irish insurance companies seeking access to key Asian markets.
June 6, 2022
Messaging and social networking app Telegram, which has built a reputation for guarding users from invasive government surveillance and censorship, appears to be buckling under official pressure, shutting down two dissident channels in Hong Kong following threats from regulators.
June 2, 2022
The Personal Data Protection Act PDPA mirrors the GDPR in many respects, specifically requiring data controllers and processors to have a valid legal basis for processing personal data - data that can identify living natural persons directly or indirectly.
June 2, 2022
On 12 May 2022, the Hong Kong Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data issued new Recommended Model Contractual Clauses for Cross-border Transfers of Personal Data to cater for both (i) data user to data user and (ii) data user to data processor transfers. This Legal Update summarises the key content...
June 2, 2022
Last week, I discussed eDiscovery in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region in terms of what each country has in place from a rules and discovery standpoint. eDiscovery isn’t the only...
June 1, 2022
Key developments of interest over the last month include: Queen's Speech 2022 announces forthcoming Financial Services and Markets Bill; European Commission consultations and calls for...
June 1, 2022
Organisations engaging in cross border transfers of personal data may now rely on the Recommended Model Contractual Clauses (RMCs), recently…
May 31, 2022
The Hong Kong government said it would consider banning the use of overseas communication platforms that expose personal ...
May 31, 2022
The European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) are considered to be a global standard for the protection of personal information. Across Africa, many existing data security and protection laws were modelled on the regulations of the EU’s first data privacy legislation – the EU Data Protection Directive (1995),…