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Many thanks to Mr Ivan Chan, Head of Communications and Education from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data for sharing current and future challenges in the Privacy space with our students. The emergence of AI, BigData and FinTech means that those working in this space need to be extra careful about privacy considerations in their business processes and in the products and services they provide to users. (E.g. Automated Decision Making and Profiling). Also great to listen about the growing use of #deepfakes and the privacy and security risks and threats to businesses.

Thanks also to Commissioner Wong for his ongoing support for embedding industry-ready privacy and security content into the Masters programme; a first in Asia.

Thanks to Joyce Huang from Crypto.com and former IBM Greater China Compliance specialist, for sharing her knowledge and practical experience with China Cybersecurity Law. It was a great way for the class to understand the key practical challenges when operating FinTech businesses in China.

Thanks to Sam Ng, Johnson, Chuan Zhang and Saravana Kumar from crypto.com to share key cybersecurity examples with our students, demonstrating practical issues around malicious USB's, WiFi Man-In-The-Middle Attacks, Blockchain security issues and even a live demo of a laptop takeover, remotely enabling and recording the victim through the victim's webcam. It was a great security awareness session for the class, and best practices on how to improve our own personal security.

Thanks to Bernard Tan, Chief Counsel, Cybersecurity at SAP, (who has recently been included as an additional HK Co-Chair of the IAPP - International Association of Privacy Professionals), for delivering a presentation covering, "The Future Is Cloudy, Navigating Cybersecurity Risks in The Cloud", and "Navigating a World with increasing Cybersecurity and Data-Related Regulations" to our students via Zoom.

The cloud is complex, and it was good to hear from industry leaders on not just the technological security risks, but also from a regulatory perspective. It was a great opportunity for the students to learn and understand more about cross-border privacy and security regulations and challenges companies face, and strategies to overcome them.