Vietnam took Facebook’s local servers offline early this year to pressure the company to “significantly” increase censorship of anti-state posts for local users, Reuters...
The Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019, was introduced in Parliament in December 2019, and was referred to a 30-member Joint Parliamentary Committee for review. The Bill is the...
A cross-industry coalition of companies, The Global Data Alliance, was launched on January 22 to advocate for policies that encourage cross-border data flow (CBDF) and...
As the Joint Parliamentary Committee considers the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019, MediaNama will publish a series of articles from legal experts focussing on...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security (MPS) has stated that data localisation requirements of the Law on Cybersecurity will be narrowed, reported The Business Times...
Opposition by foreign companies to India’s data localisation move may come down once a globally accepted framework of taxing digital companies comes into place,...