Hong Kong’s Data Hub for China Strategy Depends on Privacy

Hong Kong intends to leverage its privacy framework to become the data center of choice for China’s initiative to improve transportation links and digital trade between Eurasian countries, the Chinese special administrative region’s privacy commissioner told Bloomberg BNA in an interview.

In contrast to mainland China, Hong Kong offers a “sound regulatory framework and practices” to protect privacy and secure data that could be trusted by companies and consumers in the more than 60 countries covered by China’s Belt and Road Initiative, Hong Kong Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data Stephen Wong said on the sidelines of the 39th International Data ...