Facebook suspends government requests to access user data in Hong Kong following the enactment of a contentious new national security law.
"We are pausing the review of government requests for user data from Hong Kong pending further assessment of the National Security Law, including formal human rights due diligence and consultations with international human rights experts,” a Facebook company spokesperson said in a statement.
The company is currently reviewing the law to understand the implications for Facebook and its users, a spokesperson said. Riot police hold up a warning flag during a demonstration in a mall in Hong Kong on July 6, 2020, in response to a new national security law introduced in the city which makes political views, slogans and signs advocating Hong Kongs independence or liberation illegal.
Last week, Beijing rolled out the new national security law, which is aimed at curtailing unrest and protests in Hong Kong by punishing acts of secession, subversion and terrorism. There is a maximum penalty of life in prison for breaking the law.the law will"authoritarian-ize" Hong Kong and end its"One Country Two Systems" framework, established in 1997 when the city was handed back to China from Britain.
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