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Balancing the Scales: How to Use “Legitimate Interest” to Process Personal Data “Fairly”
In September 2024, the Guangzhou Internet Court released its ruling on a civil dispute that was originally issued in September 2023, involving the transfer of personal data outside mainland China. This judgment is reportedly the first judicial judgment on cross-border data transfers.
In this case, an international hotel group based in France, as the defendant, was found liable for illegally transferring the personal data of the plaintiff, an individual Chinese customer, to third parties outside of China for the purpose of marketing, without obtaining the customer’s separate consent prior to providing the data.Continue Reading Court Ruling in China on Personal Data Transfer by International Hotel Chain
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China Finalizes New Regulations to Relax Personal Data Exports
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China Finalizes New Regulations to Relax Personal Data Exports from China | Privacy World
Nearly six months after the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) was first introduced for public consultation, with its draft regulations proposing to ease outbound data transfers from China (Draft Regulations) (see our article at China Releases Draft Regulation to Significantly Ease Cross-border Data Transfers | Privacy World), the much-awaited final rules on Regulating and Facilitating Cross-border Data Flows were published and came into effect on March 22, 2024 (New Regulations). The New Regulations largely repeat the Draft Regulations, but now have further relaxed personal data exports from China.
Meanwhile, on the same day, the CAC also released the Guide to the Application for Security Assessment of Data Exports (Second Edition) and the Guide to the Filing of the Standard Contract for Personal Data Exports (Second Edition) (collectively, the Second Edition Guides) which make corresponding adjustments pursuant to the New Regulations.Continue Reading China Finalizes New Regulations to Relax Personal Data Exports from China
To significantly facilitate cross-border data flow from Mainland China to Hong Kong (and vice versa), the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) and the Innovation, Technology and Industry Bureau of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (ITIB) has published the template Standard Contract for Cross-boundary Flow of Personal Information Within the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area (Standard Contract) and its implementation guidelines on December 13, 2023.Continue Reading Newly Issued Guidelines on Standard Contracts for Cross-boundary Data Flow Within the Greater Bay Area (i.e., Hong Kong, Macau and Nine Key Mainland Cities)
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Scott Warren, Partner, Tokyo/Shanghai, has been busy this week at various speaking events in Tokyo. On 25 October 2023, he spoke at two events:
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