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Legislation on protection of privacy and personal data remains at the top of the agenda for members of a key Chinese policy advisory board. -
US tech giants such as Facebook are growing increasingly concerned about elements of India’s proposed data-protection law, complaining that it would trigger privacy issues for non-Indians & unreasonably restrict unfettered Internet access to teenagers approaching age 18. -
Lion Air Group subsidiaries Malindo Air and Thai Lion Air have both suffered data breaches resulting in large amounts of customers' personal details being leaked online. -
Data referred to as "important" under China's data-protection regime, which is subject to scrutiny before being exported, is evaluated against its importance to the country, not its importance to businesses or individuals, a Chinese cybersecurity official said. -
South Korean companies targeting the US market are likely to feel the regulatory tremors created by the new privacy law in California, especially those in the gaming and IT industries, sectors where the US market is perhaps the most lucrative. -
From entertainment to payment services, facial recognition technology is gaining popularity in China and has been adopted by both state law-enforcement agencies and commercial practices. Yet regulation of the technology’s serious security implications has been slow to catch up. -
Global online media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter should be required to reveal information on users that engage in “doxxing” if provided with evidence of their behavior by authorities, Hong Kong’s data protection authority has suggested as it seeks to revamp local laws. -
TikTok, a video-sharing app service run by ByteDance, is expected to receive a request soon from the South Korean communications regulator for information about how the service handles personal information of South Korean users as part of an ongoing probe into the service's personal-information management, MLex has learned. -
Much about a proposed data privacy law for India drafted by government-appointed experts is still unclear, causing legal uncertainty on top of concerns about the prospect of hefty fines and prison sentences for violations, an executive at Intel said today. -
Companies operating in China have so far largely avoided criminal liability for data-related security breaches, despite a deepening police crackdown on such lapses, but the risks associated with data crimes cannot be entirely overlooked, as companies are expected to boost compliance in face of enhanced regulation.