by Steven Jacob, Foreign Associate In traditional contracts, the contract is dependent upon the agreement of the parties. That agreement is reached through a process of contract formation. In the first step, one of the parties makes an offer of
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Legal Issues with Blockchain in Vietnam
By Steven Jacob, Foreign Associate A while ago I wrote about blockchain and data protection issues in Vietnam. In that post, I discussed the Vietnamese government’s promotion of the development of blockchain technology in the country. I also pointed to…
Bribery in Vietnam
by Steven Jacob, Foreign Associate Looking at my list of potential blog topics, I found the issue of bribery remaining from a time before I began to focus primarily on tech-related issues. When I was in Laos we were very…
Data Privacy of Children in Vietnam
A couple weeks ago I wrote about Vietnam’s new draft data protection regulations. Part of those regulations cover the protection of children’s data in the online environment. That is not the first instance of regulations for data privacy for children…
Foreign E-Commerce Providers in Vietnam
by Steven Jacob, Foreign Associate Recently, I came across an update that referred to an official letter clarifying tax issues as relates to foreign e-commerce providers. I’ll discuss it in more depth in a bit, but in essence, it said…
Vietnam’s New Draft Data Protection Law
by Steven Jacob It finally happened. A few weeks ago, the Ministry of Public Security issued its draft Decree on Personal Data Protection. This is apparently the second draft though I’ve only seen reference to a previous “outline” issued at…
Data Protection and Blockchains in Vietnam
Some time ago I had the time and the inclination to look into blockchain technology. The more I learned the more I saw that it presented a huge potential for collecting and managing data across a broad spectrum of activities.…
Social Networks in Vietnam
In several of my posts lately, I’ve mentioned the possibility of certain services coming under the laws governing the deployment and operation of social networks in Vietnam (see P2P Lending in Vietnam and B2B Lending in Vietnam). But in mentioning…
B2B Lending in Vietnam
by Steven Jacob, Foreign Associate Last week I attended a year-end party and was asked about business-to-business, or B2B, lending in Vietnam. While I was familiar with the legal issues surrounding peer-to-peer, or P2P, lending (see my post on that…
Data Privacy Obligations in Vietnam
by Steven Jacob, Foreign Associate A few weeks ago I wrote about individual user’s data privacy rights in Vietnam. This week I want to write about the service provider’s data privacy obligations in Vietnam. While two sides of the same…