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Activists fear HK immigration bill will allow arbitrary travel bans

FILE PHOTO: British National Overseas passports (BNO) and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People s Republic of China passports sit on top of baggage in Hong Kong, China, December 17, 2020. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu HONG KONG (Reuters) - An immigration bill on Hong Kong s legislative agenda for Wednesday would give authorities virtually unlimited powers to prevent residents and others entering or leaving the former British colony, lawyers, diplomats and rights groups say. The government says the bill merely aims to screen illegal immigrants at source amid a backlog of asylum applications, and does not affect movement rights. But lawyers say it empowers authorities to bar anyone, without a court order, from entering or leaving Hong Kong and fails to prevent indefinite detention for refugees.

In a Quest to Rein in Its Tech Giants, China Turns to Data Protection

But the move has also raised debate about whether those same rules will apply to one of the country s biggest data processors the government. Last year, Beijing published the draft version of the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), laying out for the first time a comprehensive set of rules around data collection and protection. Previously, various pieces of piecemeal legislation governed data. It s seen as part of a bigger effort to rein in the power of Chinese technology giants which were able to grow unencumbered over the past few years through the vast collection of data to train algorithms and build products, experts said.

In a Quest to Rein in Its Tech Giants, China Turns to Data Protection

In a Quest to Rein in Its Tech Giants, China Turns to Data Protection
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