The tide continues to turn – Asian data privacy laws in flux This update follows on from our original article Upcoming changes to data protection legislation in Asia. Looking back on the last 18 months, the data privacy laws of several Asian jurisdictions have been updated to incorporate stronger protections for individuals' personal data. This article provides an update on a handful of jurisdictions in Asia and summarises some of those main changes, including the far-reaching implications of the new data protection law in Mainland China. Introduction Many jurisdictions in Asia are in the process of updating, or have already updated, their data protection regimes. Many of these changes were expected developments following a lengthy period of legislative debate, as a part of incremental steps towards strengthening data protection. For example, in Hong Kong, the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance has been amended include new provisions regarding 'doxxing'. Other juri...
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