Chalk Girl: a protester at the heart of Hong Kong’s democracy movement. Two years since her arrest made her an accidental hero of the pro-democracy umbrella movement, the 16-year-old must decide whether to rejoin the battle alongside the 'localist' youth. As elections loom, Chalk Girl is torn between wanting to respect her family, who are concerned about the risks of her activism, and standing up to Chinese interference. Young localists see themselves as being in a fight to save their beloved city, and in the middle of it all, Chalk Girl is just a teenager wanting to feel part of something bigger.

In 2014, as a 14-year-old schoolgirl, she was arrested for drawing a chalk flower on a wall where thousands of people created protest artworks. It was the end of the umbrella revolution, in which tens of thousands of people occupied parts of downtown Hong Kong. She was detained and removed from her father's care, and only released when international outrage began to cause embarrassment. Because she was underage, her face was obscured in the press, but a cartoon form of her image became synonymous with the fight for democracy. The world came to know her as Chalk Girl.

Now 16, she remains masked and scarred from the damage done to her and her family, but her generation of 'umbrella soldiers' faces a new fight. Trouble is brewing as Hong Kong gears up for the first elections since the protests, and these young people are moving away from frontline street battles to stand in mainstream politics. Government suppression has caused youth anger to grow and inspired the creation of the localist movement – groups determined to defend Hong Kong’s culture and autonomy from the creeping dominance of mainland China.

What does it mean to be an accidental hero and a teenage girl at the heart of Hong Kong’s movement for autonomy, as the city’s youth mobilise to challenge China’s influence on the territory?

Commissioned by the Guardian and Bertha Foundation

China's new Cybersecurity Law goes into force on Thursday with an aim to tighten what is already one of the world's most restrictive online environments.

With more on this and other news around the world we turn to Ro Aram.
Aram… the law seeks to protect China's networks and private user data, but foreign firms are concerned about its potential impact on their ability to do business in the world's second largest economy....

That's right Jihye… companies have been urging the Chinese government to delay the legislation's implementation, but these calls have fallen on deaf ears.

To add to concerns, the language of the new law, which was adopted last November, was tweaked recently to broaden the scope of those affected by it.
Multinationals are worried it may discriminate against foreign businesses and that its requirements on matters such as technology disclosure and encryption could give Chinese companies an unfair advantage.

Data collected within China will have to stay inside the country, raising suspicions that Beijing could steal trade secrets or intellectual property from foreign companies doing business there.

They are also concerned about the vagueness of the legislation as those subject to the restriction of data transfer outside of China's borders have now been classified as "network operators" which could mean any business regardless of size.

They want more clarification on what businesses will be affected and to what extent, hence the calls for a delay.

Although some have praised the new law's implementation, especially amid recent fears over the global WannaCry ransomware attack, companies are jittery about their products having to go through even tougher security checks, which could lead to some being banned from the country.

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Gabriela O. Asrow of Hoffenberg & Block, LLC discusses the six types of difficult family law clients and how to work with them.

The twists and turns of this week's General Election may be enough to befuddle anyone - even TV journalists.

On Sunday, two of them managed to make the same big gaffe on air as they reported on Theresa May's reshuffle.

As Jeremy Hunt arrived at Downing Street to learn his fate this afternoon, BBC political journalist Ellie Price accidentally dropped the C bomb.

Meanwhile, over at Sky News, anchorwoman Claudia-Liza Armah was minutes away from falling into the same trap.

Data Privacy is a cross-cutting matter applicable to all sectors, including IP. IP practitioners are daily confronted with the collection and handling of personal data – not always sure to handle them properly.

In addition, European practitioners will be soon subject to the new provisions of the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) entering into force next year. This workshop aims to provide an overview of the relevant aspects of Data Protection for IP practitioners.

Anna Forestan is In-House Legal Counsel at Dennemeyer Group since 2014. After her admission to the bar in Italy she gained first experiences in law firms in Italy and Germany with focus on international contract law. As In-House Legal Counsel she specialized in contractual law applied to IP-related field and collaborated to Data Protection Project at Dennemeyer.

In the wake of multiple attacks in England, British Prime Minister Theresa May is raising eyebrows by saying there’s been “too much tolerance” of extremism, and calling out US tech companies for not doing enough to combat terrorist content on the internet. (Source: NBC)

Labour is in a tough position when it comes to Brexit. In its heartlands in the north, the party's traditional supporters voted to leave the European Union but in its urban strongholds they voted heavily to remain. Keir Starmer, the shadow Brexit secretary, is in the unenviable position of balancing those two opposing demands. I went to his constituency of Camden in north London to find out about the party's Brexit negotiation plans and ask why Theresa May seems hellbent on giving the impression she'll leave the European Union with no deal.

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