A February 2015 Morrison & Foerster client alert reported on the issuance of a new draft Foreign Investment Law (“FIL”) that, if promulgated, would institute far-reaching changes to the Chinese government’s oversight of...more
More than twelve years after the promulgation in 2003 of the Catalogue of Telecommunications Services; the “2003 Catalogue”) China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (“MIIT”) finally promulgated the amended...more
1/21/2016
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Cloud Computing ,
Foreign Investment ,
MIIT Provisions ,
Mobile Apps ,
PaaS ,
SaaS ,
Software ,
Team Telecom ,
Telecommunications ,
Value-Added Tax (VAT)
One of the more dramatic privacy law developments in China in 2014 was the August criminal conviction of foreign nationals Peter Humphrey and Yu Yingzeng for their violation of Article 253 of the Criminal Law (??) associated...more
9/16/2015
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Criminal Prosecution ,
Cybersecurity ,
Cybertheft ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Data Theft ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Third-Party
On July 6, 2015, China’s legislature, the National People’s Congress (NPC), circulated for comment two pieces of draft legislation with significant potential implications for data privacy and data security in China. Comments...more
7/21/2015
/ China ,
Cyber Crimes ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Identity Theft ,
Information Technology ,
Network Security ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Proposed Amendments ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Telecommunications