Practice areas

Compliance; Data protection; E-commerce, fintech, blockchain & cryptos

Introduction

Prior to joining Jingtian & Gongcheng, Zhou Yang worked in the legal compliance department of a famous domestic internet company, and in the cybersecurity and data compliance team of a famous domestic law firm.

In 2014, Zhou began to focus on cybersecurity, data compliance and e-commerce. She has been entrusted with data compliance services in many industry sectors including banking, insurance, real estate, energy, gaming, e-commerce and telematics, and has provided efficient and practical solutions for clients in such service projects as data asset and flow mapping, compliance discrepancy diagnosis, data classification and grading, data cross-border compliance, group data sharing compliance, child data protection compliance, GDPR and CCPA specific compliance, and data security specific compliance for listings in Hong Kong.

Zhou participated in the compilation of both drafted and formal versions of the national standard Information security technology ‒ Requirements of Internet Platform, product and service privacy policy, led by TC260 (National Information Security Standardisation Technical Committee), and also participated in the compilation of documents including General Knowledge on Critical Information Infrastructure Security Protection and Global Personal Information Protection Report, edited by China Cyberspace Security Association.

Zhou’s professional and diligent work attitude, as well as her superb understanding and project leadership of new business, have won her many accolades from clients, and she was awarded the Recommended Lawyer in Data Protection of 2023 by The Legal 500.

Currently, Zhou is a member of the Technology and Big Data Committee of the Beijing Bar Association, a senior researcher of the Institute of Digital Economy and the Institute of Fintech Research of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, a member of the First Cyberspace Security Strategy and Law Committee of China Institute of Communications, and has passed the international Certified Data Privacy Solutions Engineer (CDPSE) certification.

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