Extract from Doug Austin’s article “Data Privacy and Breach Notification From the Other Side of the World: APAC”
Last week, I discussed eDiscovery in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region in terms of what each country has in place from a rules and discovery standpoint. eDiscovery isn’t the only discipline where US-based bloggers like me tend to be focused geographically – we also tend to focus our data privacy discussions on the European Union (because of GDPR) and the US.
But other countries around the world have data privacy laws as well, including APAC.
As is the case with eDiscovery, the status of data privacy laws within APAC countries/jurisdictions is quite varied. There are two terrific resources that provide information regarding current data privacy and data protection laws in the APAC region.
Data Privacy in APAC
The first resource, EDRM’s APAC Primer for eDiscovery (available for download here) not only goes into depth about nine countries/jurisdictions judicial system and handling of eDiscovery in the region, but it also discusses the current status of national privacy legislation that exists within each country/jurisdiction.
