The State of Privacy Regulations Across Asia
The State of Privacy Regulations Across Asia
Miriam Wugmeister spoke to CSO about the growing focus on data protection laws throughout the Asia-Pacific region, where some countries are further ahead of the European Union and the GDPR [General Data Protection Regulation] on certain aspects of privacy regulations.
“There is a misunderstanding that the EU is the highest standard. It definitely is in some areas, but in some areas, definitely not,” Miriam said, adding that “countries such as South Korea, Japan, and Singapore are the leaders in terms of data security. On data localization [a.k.a. data sovereignty], China’s way ahead of Europe.”
Miriam noted that GDPR is not the most rigorous standard on data security. “It says you need to have reasonable organizational and technical measures to protect your data. It mentions anonymization and pseudonymization, and encryption, but that’s all it says. By contrast, South Korea has 20 pages of detailed obligations.”
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