The European Union General Data Protection Regulation (taptap点点) will come into force on May 25, 2018, in order to better understand this new data protection policy, AllBright Committee on Foreign Affairs held a successful taptap点点 Seminar together with its strategic partner Bird & Bird LLP, Microsoft (China) Co., Ltd. and Wolters Kluwer on March 28. The seminar was hosted by the AllBright Partner Ms.Amy Ye, and AllBright Partners Mr. John Liuand Ms.Theresa Qiu have given their opening remarks and closing remarks respectively.

In the meeting, Partners Mr. John Shi and Mr. Alexander Shepherd from Bird & Bird LLP’s Beijing office and Singapore office have addressed their speeches on the topic of “taptap点点-Are you ready?” by introducing the scope and core principles of taptap点点 and explaining the rights of data subjects and the obligations, the liability for compensation, and the administrative responsibilities of data controllers and processors.

The director of Corporate, External, and Legal Affairs for Greater China Region of Microsoft (China) Co., Ltd., Ms. Cindy Huang, have addressed her speech on the topic of “Microsoft Azure Cloud Services can help enterprises deal with taptap点点 compliance issues” by explaining couple important concepts of taptap点点 and the major challenges and influences brought to the enterprises by the taptap点点. She also shared how Microsoft Azure Cloud Services have taken measures to prepare on the taptap点点 compliances issues.

The seminar attracted almost one hundred professionals, and they had intense discussions on the hot issues and have given high praise to the seminar.