In March 2022, Baker McKenzie’s Data Privacy & Security Team across offices presented the Asia Pacific edition of Deciphering Data, the Firm’s webinar series that aims to help companies and organizations decode complex developments in data privacy and cybersecurity. Our diverse team of cross-border experts offered their expertise and insight in this webinar series to help you understand the legal lay of the land and prepare for the future of privacy in Asia Pacific and…
Hong Kong’s data privacy law, the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (Cap. 486) (PDPO), has been amended to introduce “anti-doxxing” provisions.
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…
Technology continues to forever change the way companies and organizations around the world operate. In this episode of TMT Talk, Adrian Lawrence, Stephanie Magnus, Isabella Liu, and Paolo Sbuttoni discuss the salient points of society’s digital transformation. Using Baker McKenzie’s SMART framework, our panel of experts share their insights on hot topics such as FinTech, HealthTech, and e-Commerce. https://open.spotify.com/episode/21aYdcBUKlqJCDhlXDw3ME
“AI in the Time of Coronavirus” tackles how companies and governments are using technology to help fight the COVID-19 outbreak and alleviate its effects. The episode also contains discussion on the interconnected privacy and cybersecurity issues that come with investment in technological solutions during crises. With big data, predictive analytics, social media, and surveillance technology as just some of the key points, Raffaele Giarda, Jay Ruan, and Paolo Sbuttoni have an insightful conversation on how the modern world faces…
In Part I , we discussed the first two lessons learnt from the recent cyberattacks. We will share the final three lessons learnt from recent cyberattacks in Part II. Lesson 3: Avoid Collecting Children’s Data As Much As Possible In response to recent incidents involving children’s data, the Hong Kong Privacy Commissioner issued a Guidance Note in December 2015 (Collection and Use of Personal Data through the Internet – Points to Note for Data Users Targeting at…
Data privacy and cybersecurity are two of the biggest concerns that companies holding personal data face in 2016. 2015 saw an alarming increase in data breaches worldwide and a number of incidents in Hong Kong. For example, just before Christmas, Sanrio Digital (HK) Limited announced that personal data (potentially including children’s data) of up to 3.3 million members of the SanrioTown website may have been the subject of a data breach. SanrioTown is currently being…