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Join me in conversation with experts around the world as we talk about new privacy laws, global trends in data protection and the impact of these developments.
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Discussion about international business with focus on developing countries such China, Vietnam, India and other interesting one. We will invite as well top CEO sharing their experiences in work and life around the world.
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Privacidad, خصوصية, siri, privacy, privacidade. Finding the word in different languages might look simple. The contexts in which privacy plays out around the world, however, is definitely not. What does privacy mean for people in countries around the world? How are new technologies and widespread data aggregation impacting societies, politics, and cultures? What are the stories of the activists working to protect privacy rights and advocate for adequate laws, regulations and practices to ens ...
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The AI Act transposes European values to a new era. By focusing regulation on identifiable risks, today's agreement will foster responsible innovation in Europe. "Our AI Act will make a substantial contribution to the development of global rules and principles for human-centric Artificial Intelligence”, this is how Ursula Von Der Leyen - President …
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The fashion and luxury market in China remains one of the largest and most dynamic in the world. The Chinese fashion market presents both challenges and opportunities for multinational brands looking to establish a presence in China. To achieve long-term growth and success in China, multinational brands must adapt to the complex regulatory environm…
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Cross-border e-commerce (“CBEC”) is an umbrella term for cross-border e-commerce retail imports and exports. Cross-border e-commerce retail import refers to the process whereby consumers in China purchase goods from abroad through a cross-border e-commerce third-party platform operator and transport them into the country using either online bonded …
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In the recent years Italy has increasingly attracted the interest of investors who are willing to actively enter the market through the set up of company in Italy or the acquisition of existing entities in various sectors in which Italy has its forte such as fashion, mechanical or automotive sectors, to name a few. Since many years Italy has desire…
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China has officially acceded to the Apostille Convention. This will save time and costs for companies and individuals, as foreign documents for use in China will no longer need to undergo multiple rounds of authentication by different authorities. Let's discuss it today. Website: https://www.carlodandrea.it Twitter: https://twitter.com/DAndreaCarlo…
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In order to further optimize the Chinese foreign investment environment and attract more foreign investment, China's State Council has issued “The Opinions of the State Council on Further Optimizing the Foreign Investment Environment and Intensifying Efforts to Attract Foreign Investment” (the “Opinions”). These 24 guidelines provide clear directiv…
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On July 13th , 2023, the National Internet Information Office and other departments jointly issued the Interim Measures for the Administration of Generative Artificial Intelligence Services ("Measures"), implemented from August 15th, 2023 onwards and putting forward detailed compliancy requirements in terms of content, data and algorithms. It is no…
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European companies have long since recognised that China’s R&D ecosystem is increasingly vibrant and has many advantages over the rest of the world. Among the advantages most commonly cited are the number and variety of collaboration partners, as well as inventive scientists and researchers. Wide praise from European investors also extol the size o…
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On April 18th, 2023, the European Parliament approved the legislation for the implementation of a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) as part of the European Union’s (EU) “Fit for 55 in 2030 package”, which is aimed at reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 55 percent before 2030. From this mammoth legislative change, we have the EU & Chi…
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The G20 summit held in Bali, Indonesia between November 15th- 16th was significant in it’s indications on how the most powerful nations of the world aim to tackle the most pressing issues of are time, from geo-political concerns, climate change, digitalization as well as diplomacy amongst the attendants. For China, the trip to Indonesia was one of …
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Italy, and Europe more generally, is a global benchmark for the automotive industry as home to several of the world’s largest and most iconic car companies. In this period of economic recovery, following re-openings and the easing of restrictive measures, both the Italian government and foreign companies have decided to focus on this important sect…
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The eastern and southern regions of China have long been the traditional powerhouses for foreign investors, leading to a large disparity with more inland regions in terms of market development. China has sought to rectify this imbalance through initiatives such as the Western Region Land-Sea Corridor, Belt and Road projects and the Western Region D…
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The Foreign Investment Law (“FDI law”) has been effective since 2020 which has replaced the previous 3 foreign investment related laws and become the new milestone for foreign investment management trends in China. Foreign-invested companies in China have been experiencing a transitional period and may have adopted certain changes to follow the new…
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After more than 8 years of implementation of the Vietnam Land Law 2013 (45/2013/QH13), important results have been achieved on land management, with a comprehensive, stable, and practical legal corridor for the exploitation and use of land which laid the foundation of the Vietnamese real estate market and making positive contributions for socio-eco…
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“¿Qué pasaría si hubiera un monstruo mítico que chupa datos biológicos en vez de sangre?” Como parte de nuestra serie 'ficciones creativas', Privacy is Global se complace en presentar Datachiri. 2.0. Te invitamos a entrar en el paisaje sonoro de La Paz, Bolivia, en 2043. El gobierno se ha disuelto en gran medida y la gente depende de los dispositiv…
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“What if there was a mythical monster that sucked our biodata instead of our blood?” As part of our ‘creative fictions’ series, Privacy is Global is excited to bring you Datachiri. 2.0. We invite you to sonically enter 2043 La Paz, Bolivia. Sascha lives in a society where the government has largely dissolved, and people rely on devices provided for…
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“From a private message to police knocking on your door” As part of our ‘creative fictions’ series, Privacy is Global is excited to bring you Crime and Prejudice. Crime and Prejudice is a series of three radio dramas produced by Paradigm Initiative. The series follows the online controversy when the police arrive at Dr. Ewem’s door to arrest her ba…
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“O que você faria se grandes coorporações pudessem ler seus pensamentos?” O episódio “Você Está Lendo Minha Mente?” faz parte da segunda temporada do podcast Privacidade é Global (Privacy is Global). A história começa com Sofia entrando em uma biblioteca carioca em busca de um livro de ficção científica da Octavia Butler, mas o que ela acaba encont…
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Você Está Lendo Minha Mente? (Are You Reading My Thoughts?): A Creative Storytelling Series on Data Rights [English]
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“How would you fight back against corporatized mind reading?” As part of our ‘creative fictions’ series, Privacy is Global is excited to bring you Você Está Lendo Minha Mente? (Are You Reading My Thoughts?). In this story, Sofia enters a library in Rio de Janeiro looking for an Octavia Butler book but ends up finding a portal to interact with her f…
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“VANESSA sabe que he estado ahorrando para mis vacaciones en la playa… ¡y también los hackers!” Como parte de nuestra serie 'ficciones creativas', Privacy is Global se complace en presentarles La Culpa Es De Graciela, una historia escrita por el dramaturgo ecuatoriano Sebastián Bravo Montenegro y producida en alianza con la Fundación Ciudadanía y D…
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La Culpa Es De Graciela (Graciela is to Blame): A Creative Storytelling Series on Data Rights [English]
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“The VANESSA app knows that I’ve been saving for my beach vacation… and so do the hackers!” As part of our ‘creative fictions’ series, Privacy is Global is excited to bring you La Culpa Es De Graciela (Graciela is to Blame). This is a story written by Ecuadorian playwright Sebastián Bravo Montenegro and produced in partnership with Fundación Ciudad…
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“What if there was a mythical monster that sucked our biodata instead of our blood?” “Can you imagine the CEO’s reaction when he realized the whole country’s personal data was stolen from his company’s databases?” “What if we could send messages back in time and warn ourselves about the dangers of losing our privacy?” These are some of the question…
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It should come as no surprise for international businesses that receiving payments from their Chinese counterparties can be a long and cumbersome process. This is especially relevant for overseas companies that do not have a permanent establishment in China in the form of a foreign direct investment, such as a limited liability company or a joint v…
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On 24th June 2022, China’s amended Anti-monopoly Law (AML) was adopted (after more than two years in the making), and took effect on 1st August 2022. This is a notable landmark for the legal sector, as it is the first amendment to the AML since the original law was introduced 14 years ago as China’s first comprehensive competition law. Let's examin…
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The History of Data & Elections in Kenya: The New Data Protection Act & the Challenges Ahead
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Produced by Internews. Data politics have played an immense role in Kenya’s tumultuous election history. In part, this is due to the centrality that ethnicity has played in Kenyan politics, and the ways in which data about ethnicity has been used, misused, and manipulated. Kenya is again headed to the polls in August 2022 for the first general elec…
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Thailand and Vietnam are relatively new kids on the privacy block, with Thailand publishing its Personal Data Protection Act in May 2019 and Vietnam passing its Cybersecurity Law in June 2018. What do their privacy regimes have in common, and how are they different? Tune in as Scott Warren and I meander through these laws and talk about how compani…
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The European Commission have recently published the proposal for a Directive on Sustainable Corporate Governance, which aims to ensure that the activities of European companies regarding human rights and the environment will be under closer compliancy requirements while also allowing consumers and investors an increased level of transparency. While…
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To be 'adequate' in the world of privacy means that as a country, you get to join an exclusive club of countries that are deemed by the European Commission as having adequate personal data protections. Japan was the first country to be given an adequacy decision in January 2019, and Korea was most recently granted entrance to the club in December 2…
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Join me in a conversation with Scott Warren, Partner at Squire, Patton Boggs while we unpack China's privacy regime. We discuss China's most recent privacy law the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) and apply analytical tools to understand what compliance with it will look like. This conversation was recorded April 4, 2022, just five months…
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How does one stay on top of all the new data protection laws emerging around the world? Are there tools that can help privacy pros (and other mortals) understand what these laws are about? Can these tools facilitate compliance? The answer is yes, and we have them right here! Scott Warren, partner at Squire Patton Boggs, joins me from Tokyo in this …
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Join me in conversation with Heather Federman, Chief Privacy Officer at BigID, on the extra-territorial reach of privacy regimes, what data nationalism means, surveillance and everything in between!Nadia Ishaq
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The European Commission, the executive arm of the EU, announced a new European Chips Act (The Act) on February 8th, 2022, that will enable 15 billion euros in additional public and private investments until 2030. This is on top of 30 billion euros of public investments that had previously been planned from various sources. Let's discuss it today. W…
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The People’s Republic of China is the world’s largest e-commerce market, with over 800 million Chinese netizens on a daily basis and e-commerce transactions reaching 11.76 trillion RMB (equivalent to 1.6 trillion euro) in 2020. These are just a few of the reasons that have driven us to write this new practical guide. In this episode, we will outlin…
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Produced by Internews. WhatsApp is the world’s most popular messaging platform with over 2.5 billion active users. People from India to Mexico to Ghana use the platform for everything from sharing memes, communicating with family, selling goods and services, mobilizing political actions, and even engaging in remote teaching and learning. When Faceb…
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Produzido pela Coding Rights. O que você faria se um sistema de Inteligência Artificial (IA) te dissesse que sua filha vai engravidar nos próximos seis meses? Bem, algumas famílias em Salta, na Argentina, quase tiveram essa experiência com a implementação de um sistema de IA projetado para "prever" gravidezes não planejadas em adolescentes com base…
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Geo-political tensions, strong policy moves and a global pandemic have given rise to shifts in the private equity (PE) market in China for foreign investors, with industry sources reporting a steady decline in new international investors or even divestiture of China holdings. However, there may be light at the end of the tunnel. Let’s discuss it to…
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Produced by Coding Rights for the series Privacy is Global. What would you do if an AI system told you that your daughter will get pregnant in the next six months? Well, some families in Salta, Argentina, almost had the experience with the implementation of an AI system designed to “predict” unplanned pregnancies in teenagers based on where they li…
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The new Personal Information Protection Law has already entered into effect from Nov 1st, 2021. With personal information data increasingly a hot button topic globally amid cybersecurity investigations into popular apps’ illegal collection and use of users’ personal information, all eyes are fixed on this new Law which will govern the personal data…
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Since last year, a string of Chinese internet heavyweights, including Alibaba Group Holding, Tencent, JD and Suning.com, have been investigated or fined for alleged monopolistic behavior. On October 8th, 2021, the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR), China’s top market regulator, imposed a huge fine on food delivery giant Meituan for …
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Bolivia de abajo hacia arriba: Un acercamiento desde los grupos de base para impulsar leyes de protección de datos y políticas que respeten la privacidad
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Un episodio producido por Internet Bolivia.Org. En 2018 miles de bolivianos se encontraron en bases de datos de partidos políticos en los que nunca se habían registrado, todo esto en medio de fuertes tensiones y polarizaciones políticas. La gente estaba furiosa, pero el incidente sirvió para que la conversación sobre protección de datos y también s…
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Bolivia: From the Bottom Up: Using Grassroots approaches to push for data protection laws and privacy-respecting policies
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Produced by Internet Bolivia.org. In 2018, thousands of Bolivians found themselves in databases identified as members of political parties they had never registered for- in the midst of political tension, sensitivity and polarization. These events forced the conversation around data protections and the need for better data governance around the inf…
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Ecuador: de la fuga de datos más grande de la historia a una de las leyes más innovadoras de la región
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Un episodio producido en coordinación con la Fundación Ciudadanía y Desarrollo. En 2019 Ecuador pasó por la mayor fuga de datos de toda su historia con la distribución en línea de la información personal de prácticamente toda su población. Las consecuencias son aún difíciles de medir, pero la gravedad de la situación hizo que expertos y activistas …
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Ecuador: From a Country-Wide Data Breach to One of the Most Innovative Privacy Laws in the Region
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Produced by Fundación Ciudadanía y Desarrollo In 2019, Ecuador went through the biggest data breach in its history, with the personal data of most citizens leaked online. The consequences are still difficult to measure, but the gravity of the situation pushed everyone to act- FINALLY privacy advocates who had been pushing for data protection legisl…
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Produced by Internews for the series Privacy is Global. We know that these days everything is ‘datafied’: our shopping habits, our daily commutes, our relationships and interactions- companies and governments alike are collecting servers and servers of information about us- but why should we care about the policy and politics of data governance? Wh…
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Produced by Paradigm Initiative for the series Privacy is Global. Promoting privacy policies and culture has always been a struggle for Nigerian activists, as historical traditions emphasize communal culture and values over Western-style notions of individual privacy. Calls for better protections of personal privacy are often met with responses lik…
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Pelo mundo, tecnologias de reconhecimento facial estão sendo gradualmente implantadas em nossas vidas: nas câmeras de vigilância instaladas nas ruas ou quando precisamos autenticar nossas identidades para acessar serviços sociais ou entrar em bancos e outros locais privados. Mas o que acontece quando usamos um algoritmo binário para autenticar noss…
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Produced by Coding Rights for the series Privacy is Global. In many places around the world, facial recognition technologies are gradually being deployed in several moments of our lives: be it in surveillance cameras installed across the streets we normally walk around or when we need to authenticate our IDs to allow access to social services or to…
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Last year, Tencent announced plans to merge Huya and Douyu, however, on July 10th, 2021, The State Administration for Market Regulation (“SAMR”) stated that it would block the merger on antitrust grounds. This is a substantial development, as it is the first time the Chinese government has blocked a merger in the tech sector for antitrust reasons, …
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With the second version of the draft Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL or the Draft) period for public consultation now closed, and with personal information data increasingly a hot button topic globally amid cybersecurity investigations into popular apps’ illegal collection and use of users' personal information, all eyes are fixed on the …
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According to Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, the pandemic has accelerated digital transformation by almost a decade. The digital era has come to be. Globally, there has been a push toward more robust rules to protect consumer data and privacy, as well as to safeguard important information from corruption, compromise or loss, and China is no except…
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