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As Asia tightens up on data regulation, the EU GDPR leaves its footprint
By Tim Yu, a cybersecurity and technology policy analyst based in Hong Kong Over recent years, there has been a concerted effort from Asian regulators to ramp up their data protection regimes. In...
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A Race Against Time: New Data Protection Rules in the Internet Era
It was about time. Pre-internet rules on data protection were not fit for our new interconnected reality. The core institutions of the European Union have finally set in stone an agreement which...
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The Costs of Data Localization
In the aftermath of recent revelations on mass-scale electronic surveillance, there has been a widespread proliferation of internet restrictions. One of the most drastic, yet a common policy response...