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Data Protection Day – Key developments and trends for 2023

January 26, 2023 by Benjamin Slinn, Vinod Bange, Dr Lukas Feiler, Alissa Forstner, Liz Grimwood-Taylor, Anne-Marie Allgrove, Anne Petterd, Caitlin Whale, Adrian Lawrence, Toby Patten, Guillermo José Cervio, Valentina Salas, Valentina Biondi Grane, Elisabeth Dehareng, Caroline Serbanescu, Flavia Rebello, Theo Ling, Conrad Flaczyk, Nadia Rauf, Carolina Pardo, Magalie Dansac Le Clerc, Yann Padova, Florian Tannen, Dr Michaela Nebel, Prof. Dr. Michael Schmidl, Jiří Čermák, Milena Hoffmanová, Lenka Bešťáková, Francesca Gaudino, Yuki Kondo, Daisuke Tatsuno, Kensaku Takase, Dr. Csaba Vári, Marcia Lee, Benjamin Lau, Daniel Villanueva-Plasencia, Carlos Vela-Trevino, Elvia Aragon, Nathalja Doing, Teresa Tovar, Bienvenido A. Marquez III, Frederick August I. Jose, Radoslaw Nozykowski, Patricia Pérez, Peder Oxhammar, William Höglund, Emelie Ageby Svensson, Margarita Kozlov, Johanna Moesch (Mösch), Nadine Charrière, Muriel Binder, Jo-Fan Yu, Dhiraphol Suwanprateep, Pattaraphan Paiboon, Kritiyanee Buranatrevedhya, Thananya Chaikamonsuk, Can Sozer, Yigit Acar, Ecem Elver, Aybuke Gundel, Kellie Blyth, Maher Ghalloussi, Alex Toh, Ken Chia, Cristina Messerschmidt, Rachel Ehlers, Cynthia Cole, Brian Hengesbaugh, Stephen Reynolds, Nick Merker, Harry Valetk, Lothar Determann, Jonathan Tam, Helena Engfeldt, Maria Eugenia Salazar-Furiati, Manh Hung Tran and Jacqueline Wong 102 Mins Read

28 January 2023 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 2023, Baker McKenzie’s Global Data Privacy and Security Team is pleased to present this special edition update of key data protection and privacy developments and trends across the globe, as well summarising future legislative changes, predictions, and enforcement priorities to look out for during 2023.…

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Hong Kong: Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance amended to introduce “anti-doxxing” provisions

February 23, 2022 by Paolo Sbuttoni, Marcia Lee and Jacqueline Wong 6 Mins Read

Hong Kong’s data privacy law, the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (Cap. 486) (PDPO), has been amended to introduce “anti-doxxing” provisions.

In Cybersecurity

Hong Kong: The enigma network in cyber fraud recovery actions – Battling against allegedly ‘innocent’ recipients and competing victims

September 10, 2021 by Gary Seib, Gillian Lam and Victor Yip 6 Mins Read

In brief We have seen a noticeable increase in the prevalence and sophistication of cyber fraud incidents in recent years. This has led to a substantial rise in civil recovery actions, and as a result, we now have the benefit of key learnings from recent decisions by the Hong Kong Courts and other jurisdictions. This alert discusses some of the common themes and challenges victims of fraud may face in civil recovery actions, particularly in…

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Five Lessons From Recent Cyberattacks To Protect Your Organisation In 2016 – Part II

February 16, 2016 by Paolo Sbuttoni 4 Mins Read

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…

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Five Lessons From Recent Cyberattacks To Protect Your Organisation In 2016 – Part I

February 14, 2016 by Paolo Sbuttoni 3 Mins Read

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…

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Business Email Scams – What They Are & Practical Advice

September 8, 2015 by Dominic Wai 3 Mins Read

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