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UK plan to curb online harms may prove too broad

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UNITED KINGDOM

The OSB will impose a duty of care on internet companies, particularly social media firms and search engines, to protect their users from a range of online harms, both legal and…

Data liability will imperil US health companies

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UNITED STATES

The shift from paper to electronic recording of medical records and the on-line storage of data has spawned new areas of legal liability for the healthcare industry and its…

China's NFT market will see slower but stable growth

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CHINA

In the current market, they are mostly considered to act as certificates of ownership for digital content such as audio-visual material and images. The most expensive NFT thus far…

Foreign firms face risks in India's e-commerce space

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INDIA

The ruling offers relief to Amazon, which not only faces stiff competition but is also grappling with changes in India’s e-commerce regulatory framework. On June 21, the Ministry…

New EU, Chinese rules to restructure digital economy

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EU/CHINA

A small number of giant companies dominate segments of their digital markets: in China Tencent, Alibaba and Baidu have become household names, and in the EU the same applies to…

India’s data regime favours state and domestic tech

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INDIA

The joint parliamentary committee (JPC) tasked in 2019 with examining a draft Personal Data Protection Bill submitted its report and a revised version of the bill, renamed as the…

Rules on tech firms will tighten across South Asia

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SOUTH ASIA

Policy convergence is visible across the region's four largest markets -- India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. However, success varies and, counter-intuitively, policy…

COVID-19 slows progress on South-east Asian data rules

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SOUTH-EAST ASIA

However, the COVID-19 pandemic has slowed or halted the early stages of implementation of these laws, leaving government bureaucracies, private companies and consumers in limbo.

Regulators will struggle to tackle data harvesting

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INTERNATIONAL

Some regulators, primarily in Europe and China, are cracking down on private firms collecting large volumes of users’ personal data and processing them for new purposes without…

US government tightens grip on corporate cybersecurity

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US

This follows the ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline in May. As criminal and state-sponsored cyberattacks intensify, the administration is focusing on threats to US critical…