AuthorMingli Shi

privacy law professional; love going into nature and onto water; Frenchie owner; rational enthusiast

More Insight into the Future of China’s Privacy Law

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Last week I was in San Francisco attending a privacy conference co-hosted by Berkeley Law and Peking University Law School. Having attended many privacy events, I still felt fresh this time seeing so many privacy scholars, experts and professionals from China, US and Europe together sitting in the same room to discuss their regional perspectives about privacy and cybersecurity, and I absorbed...

Vermont Data Broker Law

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I once wrote a paper about data brokers during my third year at GW Law. From my research on that paper, I heard of the data brokerage industry for the first time and was surprised at how powerful it was (and still is). Data brokers hold massive volume of personal information about millions of people and sell their data services to a wide variety of clients including government agencies. In...

Ad-Tracking Consent & The Dilemma: Some Thoughts on the Washington Post Case

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A recent UK decision on online ad-tracking consent attracts my attention as it targets a novel attempt by the Washington Post towards GDPR compliance, which seemingly puts a price tag on privacy rights for users to avoid online tracking when enjoying the service. I find this decision is not convincing and could cause a tough dilemma for business compliance.  According to The Register, the...

Is China Converging With EU on Personal Information Protections?

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China is moving fast building up its data regulation regime. In June of 2017, China’s Cybersecurity Law came into force, the first national-level and cross-sector legislation in China to protect personal information. Since 2017, China also has launched a pragmatic guidance Information Security Technology – Personal Information Security Specification (“Specification”) and the...

What I learned last week at HKS’ Public Interest Tech Summit

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Last week I spent a few days at Harvard Kennedy School for the Public Interest Tech Summit, where I joined dozens of tech fellows and scholars from various backgrounds to explore and discuss around the concept of “public interest technology.” If you are interested, you can click here to watch the video recording of the opening session. A couple of ideas and inspirations I would like...

A Comparison of “Consent” in GDPR and China’s Rules

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Both China and the European Union take “consent” an important element in protecting personal information. Under the GDPR, consent is one required legal base – among others – to process personal information. China’s Cybersecurity Law, which is currently the overarching law in this field in China, requires network operators to obtain user consent before collecting and using their personal...

A Tech-Savvy Court Behind Carpenter v. United States

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For a long time, the Supreme Court has been criticized as tech-phobic and old-school, not keeping pace with technology evolvement. But through Carpenter v. United States, a recent Supreme Court decision regarding the cell-site location information (CSLI) search, I saw a tech-savvy bench vigorously trying to adapt the old Constitutional Law to the ever-evolving technologies. In case the background...

Refocusing the Privacy v. Security Debate – A Late Book Review on “Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff between Privacy and Security”

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We should not — and don’t need to — trade privacy off in order to be more secure. In his book Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff between Privacy and Security, Professor Daniel Solove explains why and how to achieve this by revealing the fallacies underlying many pro-national security arguments, including the mistaken views about privacy protection and its costs and benefits. This book was...

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