By Peter Bullock, Neil Carabine, Urszula McCormack and Donovan Ferguson. King & Wood Mallesons’ Hong Kong office.

We gathered senior legal, IT and infrastructure professionals representing transport, TMT, energy and consulting businesses for a roundtable discussion in Hong Kong (on an unattributable basis) around the opportunities for, and blockers to, Smart City development. We found reasons for optimism that Smart City technology would win through, along with frustration at the pace of progress.
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By Peter Bullock King & Wood Mallesons’ Hong Kong office.

bullock_peterData protection is not yet as high on the agendas of the boards of Chinese companies as it is for multi-national companies (“MNCs”). This is hardly surprising, as China has no designated data protection regulator, has only recently started writing significant regulations in this area,