The most important story within the Asia authorized market final week centered on Latham & Watkins’ determination to dam computerized entry for its Hong Kong employees to recordsdata and paperwork exterior of Better China. They aren’t forbidden entry utterly. It’s simply that they now should seek approval to achieve entry, a deviation from the agency’s previous strategy or, in additional affable phrases, an replace to its information administration course of.
Somebody I met with this week informed me it’s not “information,” and that a number of different worldwide companies have already been doing one thing related or are severely contemplating the identical strategy.
