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Asia In Brief China last week commenced a crackdown on inappropriate collection and subsequent use of personal information.
The Middle Kingdom’s Cyberspace Administration, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Ministry of Public Security, and the State Administration for Market Regulation jointly announced their intention to deepen enforcement of privacy laws by conducting a crackdown in six settings:
The agencies responsible for the crackdown didn’t say why it’s needed, but vowed they would ensure their efforts deliver swift results.
None of the targets of the campaign are government entities, an unsurprising omission given China conducts pervasive surveillance of its citizens.Indonesia ends iPhone 16 ban
Apple has announced it will start to sell the iPhone 16 in Indonesia.
Indonesia banned the device last year, that it wanted Apple to make a larger investment in the nation’s tech ecosystem.
That investment was announced in early March when Indonesia’s Industry Ministry revealed Apple had agreed to build an R&&D facility in the country.
No details of that facility and its activities are available, but Indonesia’s government claimed a big win as this will be just the second Apple R&D facility outside the USA.
