August

"Hong Kong will begin a review of its data privacy rules over the next 18 months, with a view to potentially updating them in line with technological developments and changes in European regulation, the territory's privacy regulator said. Hong Kong's data privacy legislation was drawn-up nearly 20 years ago and based at the time on European Union law, but recent changes to the EU framework and a technology-driven explosion in personal data may mean the current rules need to change, Stephen Wong Kai-yi, Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, said. ""It's not just a matter [of] protecting individuals, we would like to protect the interests of commercial enterprises,"" said Wong, adding that the regulator would propose legislative changes if appropriate. Hong Kong's data privacy laws are relatively strict, but a review of the regime would help to account for changes in technology and developments in international data privacy law that have occurred since they were last tweaked in 2012."

Total employment in Singapore grew by 13,000 in the first quarter of 2016, a reversal from the decline of 6,100 in the same period last year according to the latest Labour Market Report for Q1 by the Ministry of Manpower Singapore. Total employment was lower than the seasonal high growth of 16,100 in the fourth quarter of 2015. The report also showed that the seasonally adjusted overall unemployment rate was at 1.9% in March 2016. Unemployment declined among residents (2.9% to 2.7%) and citizens (3.0% to 2.6%), in comparison to the previous quarter. However, long-term unemployment rate increased from 0.5% to 0.7%. Even though job openings continued to outnumber job seekers, the seasonally adjusted ratio has declined to 103 openings per 100 job seekers in March 2016, its lowest since June 2012 (98 openings per 100 job seekers).

Europe 's new data protection law, the General Data Protection Regulation (or GDPR for short) is an undeniably complex piece of legislation. Privacy professionals everywhere have a lot to learn and - thankfully - there have been many excellent articles written on the topic. For the most part, these focus on the changes that the GDPR will bring about and, specifically, the compliance actions that organisations must take. By contrast, less has been said about what the new law will NOT require. This might sound unsurprising, but it 's important to remember that, during the course of its adoption, the text of the GDPR changed many times. As a result, some provisions that were originally proposed were dropped from the final law (or otherwise changed beyond recognition), and this inevitably created a certain amount of confusion. Then throw in a sprinkling of occasional misreporting, together with a dash of Chinese whispers, and suddenly knowing what the law does NOT require becomes almost as important as knowing what it does require.