Beijing’s Shadow Falls Across Hong Kong

“U.S. firms operating in mainland China, such as Apple, Microsoft, LinkedIn, and GitHub, already face the scenario in Hong Kong, in that they’re potentially susceptible to China’s broad and vague national security laws on the mainland,” said Nigel Cory, associate director for trade policy at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, in Washington, D.C. Cory says all companies must abide by local laws when storing data. In China, companies store data locally, in large part to avoid the legal and commercial headaches caused by requests for data hosted outside of the country.