Legal Compliance of Workplace Surveillance in China -From a Personal Information Protection Perspective

Legal Compliance of Workplace Surveillance in China -From a Personal Information Protection Perspective by Yuchuan Sun (Hanling & Partners)

I. Personal Information or Not?
II. How to Secure the Lawfulness Ground?
III. Minimization
IV. What to Inform?
V. In the End

OH-EBASHI and HANLING CHINA LEGAL NEWSLETTER 2022 July Issue


Publisher：Oh-Ebashi LPC & Partners & Hanling & Partners
Practice： Protection of Personal Information Information Security and Cybersecurity Chinese Practice
Date of publication： July 4, 2022

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