Beijing Court Convicts 21 Defendants for Privacy Violations

Based on this excellent summary in the Hunton privacy blog, it looks like the breaches these defendants committed were truly of a criminal nature. It will be interesting to see if this conviction represents a more aggressive attempt to go after bad actors or may be used as some kind of precedent to go after legitimate data collection efforts by legitimate marketers and market research firms operating in China.

http://www.huntonprivacyblog.com/2011/08/articles/international/beijing-court-finds-21-defendants-guilty-of-criminal-privacy-violations/#more