Foreign direct investment of China has been ranking No. one among developing countries for twenty-seven consecutive years, according to reports of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)[1]. In that backdrop, on March 15th, 2019 the annual session of the National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature passed the PRC Foreign Investment Law ("Law"), which is a long-expected landmark legislation and was signed into law on the same day to be effective as of January 1st, 2020.

On 21 January 2019, the French data protection authority, CNIL, imposed a fine on Google of €50 million for various breaches of the GDPR, and the first fine imposed by CNIL.This was to biggest fine to-date by far imposed by any DPA pursuant to the GDPR.

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On 24 October 2018, the UK data protection enforcement body, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), issued an Enforcement Notice against Canadian data services firm, AggregateIQ (AIQ). This was the first Enforcement Notice issued by the ICO under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The Notice specifies several breaches of the GDPR and gives AIQ 30 days to put itself into compliance or face a fine of €20 million or 4% of global group turnover, whichever is greater.