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China’s new legislation on personal information protection (“PIPL”) will come into force on 1 November 2021. Mr Yang Heqing, an official from the responsible law making commission, has...

China recently has passed its Personal Information Protection Law. The law will take effect on 1 November 2021.

Privacy policy update on hold: WhatsApp tells HC Privacy policy update on hold: WhatsApp tells HC Updated: Jul 10, 2021, 09:04 IST NEWDELHI WhatsApp on Friday accepted that ‘the government is the administrator’ in its case and informed the Delhi High Court that it will put its privacy policy update “on hold” until the Data Protection Bill came into force. This is a significant development after the new Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw made it crystal clear within minut...

Bidens new executive order revokes the WeChat and TikTok orders, along with another in January that targeted eight other communications and financial technology software applications

Privacy Delayed Is Privacy Denied Each day that goes by without a data protection law, the government is failing in its positive obligation to create a framework that enables us to exercise our fundamental right to privacy effectively. Representative image of two boys on their phones during the lockdown in Mumbai. Photo: PTI Tech7 hours ago Recently, both houses of parliament reportedly granted a fourth extension to the joint parliamentary committee to submit its report on the Personal Data Pro...

Despite heightened US-China trade tensions and the COVID-19 pandemic’s disruptive effects on the global economy, mergers and acquisitions continue. The US government’s Committee on...

Highlights The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) can now prohibit or otherwise restrict certain information and communications technology and services (ICTS) "transactions" that pose an undue or unacceptable risk to U.S. national security or the safety of U.S. persons where those transactions involve "foreign adversaries." Commerces expanded power covers future and ongoing ICTS activities of preexisting contracts and gives wide discretion to the Secretary of Commerce to evaluate and addre...

Being GDPR compliant doesnt necessarily make companies ready for Indias upcoming data protection laws Being GDPR compliant doesnt necessarily make companies ready for Indias upcoming data protection laws Prabhjote GillMar 18, 2021, 11:15 IST Indias upcoming data protection laws have more terms and conditions than Europes General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR)BI India Being compliant with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) won’t necessarily mean that companie...

By Sangeeta Patnaik India is making rapid strides towards ushering in a new data protection regime. The Draft Personal Data Protection Bill that is under review and is being deliberated by the Joint Parliamentary Committee is expected to sweep through the economy with major revamps to the statutory and regulatory landscape. The current Draft Bill has proposed the establishment of a data regulator — the “Data Protection Authority of India (DPA)” — which will be entrusted with the “duty...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. The internet of things (IoT) is a set-up of interconnected objects, people or systems that process and react to physical and virtual information. It achieves outcomes that aim to improve user experience or the performance of devices and systems. The expression IoT is increasingly being used to define objects that talk to each other. Consider the following scenario: An alarm-clock transmits on...