https://www.scmp.com/rss/514454/feed Chi Yin, a former judge in China, is now an operations manager and a research scholar at the US-Asia Law Institute of New York University School of Law. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com In the ongoing uproar over TikTok’s perceived threat to the United States, we have lost sight of the issue most relevant to ordinary users of the platform – the vulnerability of their personal data. Two cases of data misuse have made headlines so far: TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, admitted to inappropriately obtaining the data of two reporters, one from BuzzFeed and one from the Financial Times. Disappointingly, there has been no discussion of the lawsuits those reporters could... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3217079/why-chinas-strong-data-privacy-laws-should-reassure-tiktok-bytedance-sceptics?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3217079/why-chinas-strong-data-privacy-laws-should-reassure-tiktok-bytedance-sceptics?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 17 Apr 2023 17:00:14 +0000 In late November, Chinese protesters filled streets in highly visible acts of resistance against China’s draconian Covid-19 restrictions. Meanwhile, and for months preceding the protests, a group of legal professionals has engaged in a quieter but more revolutionary form of resistance. Their venues are not city streets but internet forums. Their objective: to teach ordinary Chinese about the laws that prohibit many of the worst behaviours experienced during lockdown. During the Covid-19... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3203456/law-my-side-how-chinese-are-protesting-against-illegal-local-covid-19-measures?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3203456/law-my-side-how-chinese-are-protesting-against-illegal-local-covid-19-measures?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 17 Dec 2022 23:45:08 +0000