Manh Hung Tran, Author at Connect On Tech

In Data Privacy

Vietnam: Update on Data Localization Requirement & Cross-border Data Flow

March 15, 2022 by Manh Hung Tran 2 Mins Read

In the High-level Session of the Annual Vietnam Business Forum (“VBF”) held on 21 February 2022, the Vietnamese Government and business community engaged in a policy dialogue on the theme of “Restoring the economy & Developing supply chain in the new normal”. Among other talking points, the issue of digital transformation was placed in the discussion. Specifically, representatives of the business community (including EuroCham, AmCham, and VBF’s Digital Economy Working Group) expressed their recommendations concerning…

In Cybersecurity

Deep fakes and the handling of the next frontier of fake news and human agency erosion

February 21, 2022 by Manh Hung Tran 5 Mins Read

Deepfake, the 21st century’s groundbreaking alternative to photo shopping, has lately been making the front page.

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Vietnam: Leading Tech Giants for Copyright Owners

February 9, 2022 by Manh Hung Tran 4 Mins Read

The Vietnam’s Ministry of Information and Communications (“MIC”) published a Draft Decree (“Draft Decree”) amending Decree No. 72/2013/ND-CP on the management, provision, and use of Internet services and online information and Decree No. 27/2018/ND-CP amending Decree 72/2013/ND-CP (collectively referred to as “Decree 72”) for public consultation. Social networks have been one of the main subjects of application of Decree 72. Among other things, the Draft Decree suggests an amendment to Article 22 of Decree 72…

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Cross-border transfer of personal data: How Vietnam is positioning itself in the global regulatory tendency

January 28, 2022 by Manh Hung Tran 6 Mins Read

Nowadays, data is being considered as the key building block of the global digital economy, and its application plays an essential role in shaping a redefinition of socioeconomic systems. Among other subsectors of data laws, regulations in the realm of cross-border transfer of personal data have drawn considerable attention from both legislators and businesses, and Vietnam is by no means an exception to the rule. In the early of 2021, the Ministry of Public Security…

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Data Protection Day – Key developments and looking ahead to 2022

January 27, 2022 by Benjamin Slinn, Dr Michaela Nebel, Florian Tannen, Prof. Dr. Michael Schmidl, Magalie Dansac Le Clerc, Hugo Roy, Dr Lukas Feiler, Beat Koenig, Elisabeth Dehareng, Francesca Gaudino, Radoslaw Nozykowski, Nathalja Doing, Dr. Csaba Vári, Ilay Yilmaz, Can Sozer, Yigit Acar, Anne-Marie Allgrove, Liz Grimwood-Taylor, Dhiraphol Suwanprateep, Manh Hung Tran, Ken Chia, Alex Toh, Jacqueline Wong, Paolo Sbuttoni, Zhenyu Ruan, Kensaku Takase, Daisuke Tatsuno, Kellie Blyth, Arjun Patel, Theo Ling, Conrad Flaczyk, Nadia Rauf, Cristina Messerschmidt, Brian Hengesbaugh, Stephen Reynolds, Nick Merker, Harry Valetk, Michael Egan, Gary Hunt, Dominic Panakal, Alex Crowley, Justin Burgess, Daniel Villanueva-Plasencia, Carlos Vela-Trevino, Flavia Rebello, Suha Alwan and Nadine Bosshard 66 Mins Read

Friday 28 January 2022 is Data Protection Day (or Data Privacy Day outside of Europe), which marks the anniversary of the Council of Europe’s Convention 108. To mark Data Protection Day 2022, our Global Data Privacy and Security Team have provided a roundup of key trends and developments across the globe from a data protection perspective as well as looking ahead to what to expect in 2022. There are new laws and developments to keep…

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Vietnam: Processing Personal Data of Children

January 6, 2022 by Manh Hung Tran 5 Mins Read

Over the years, protecting children’s informational privacy has become a controversial issue. From a legal perspective, there are two questions: to what extent does it depend upon parental control and consent, and how is this factor incorporated into the law seeking to protect children’s informational privacy? Under the Law on Children 2016 (LoC), a child is defined as any person below the age of 16. Personal information, as prescribed by the Law on Cyberinformation Security…

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Vietnam: Draft Decree on Cybersecurity Administrative Sanctions released

November 9, 2021 by Yee Chung Seck and Manh Hung Tran 25 Mins Read

The Draft Decree consists of four chapters and 51 articles, with the main substance regarding administrative violations, penalties, and remedial measures covered under Chapter II.