In today’s knowledge economy, data is crucial to virtually all businesses and the extraterritorial reach of many international data protection and privacy laws mean that you have to be especially vigilant not to breach data privacy laws. Violation can lead to significant fines and untold damage to a company’s reputation as well as criminal liability.
If you are on the receiving end of data theft the consequences are no less serious.
Deacons understands the law and its application in practice having advised many international and domestic businesses and government organisations on data protection in Hong Kong, as well as in China, where data protection regulations are a relatively new feature. Whatever your objectives or business model, we have the experience to provide you with practical risk management advice on all data protection issues. Recent work highlights, for example, include:
Please take a look at our services for more information on the range of work we undertake. And if you would like more information on how we can help you, please feel free to get in touch.