Anna Gamvros and Ruby Kwok explain the compliance burden businesses face as China’s complex data governance landscape takes shape and the deadline for security assessments looms.
December 16, 2022FIs in Hong Kong should review whether their commercial agreements contain requirements equivalent to the recommended model contractual clauses, say Albert Yuen and Eunice Lee.
June 28, 2022The data processing activities covered under the rules include online data collection, storage, use, processing, transmission, provision, and disclosure.
June 16, 2022Companies looking to IPO in Hong Kong would have to undergo a cybersecurity assessment if their data-processing activities may have an impact on national security.
November 16, 2021PBOC governor Yi Gang expressed concerns that some big tech firms have been collecting customer data without consent and misusing the data.
November 5, 2021The law establishes a set of rules for the collection, processing and protection of personal information, effective from 1 November.
August 22, 2021The latest revisions will impose stricter requirements on internet platforms and restrict Chinese firms from handing data to foreign agencies.
May 3, 2021