Professor Anne Cheung

Profile

Anne S.Y. Cheung is a law professor at the University of Hong Kong. She received her legal education at the University of Hong Kong (LLB), the University of Toronto (JD), University of London (LLM) and Stanford University (JSD). She has taught Media Law, and Law and Society. Her recent projects are on cyberbullying, and China’s social credit system.

Research

Publications

Books:

• Self-Censorship and the Struggle for Press Freedom in Hong Kong (Kluwer International, 2003), refereed. 278 pages.
• Anne S.Y. Cheung and Rolf H. Weber (ed), Privacy and Legal Issues in Cloud Computing (2015; UK: Edward Elgar Pub.) 305pp.

Journal Articles:

• Anne S.Y. Cheung, “Doxing and the Challenge to Legal Regulation: When Personal Data Becomes a Weapon” in Bailey, Flynn & Henry (eds), The Emerald International Handbook of Technology Facilitated Violence and Abuse, Emerald Publishing (2021) 577-594.
• Jimmy Chia-Shin Hsu and Anne SY Cheung, “The Ultimate Test of Fidelity: Judicial Responses to Civil Disobedience in Hong Kong and Taiwan,” in B Jones (ed.) Democracy and Rule of Law in China’s Shadow, Hart Publishing (2021) 33-64.
• Anne SY Cheung and Wolfgang Schulz, “Reputation Protection on Online Rating Sites,” 21(2) Stanford Technology Law Review (2018) 310-340.
• Anne Cheung, “Moving beyond Consent for Citizen Science in Big Data Health Research,” 16(1) Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property (2018) 15-40.
• Mengtong Chen, Anne Shann Yue Cheung and Ko Ling Chan, “Doxing: What Adolescents Look for and Their Intentions,” 16(2) International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (2019) 218.
• Chen QiQi, Lo Camilla K.M., Zhu Yuhong, Cheung Anne, Chan Ko Ling and Ip Patrick, “Family Poly-victimization and Cyberbullying among Adolescents in a Chinese School Sample,” 77 Child Abuse & Neglect (2018) 180–187.
• Yongxi Chen and Anne Cheung, “The Transparent Self under Big Data Profiling: Privacy and Chinese Legislation on the Social Credit System”, Vol. 12, No. 2 The Journal of Comparative Law (2017) 356-378.
• Anne S.Y. Cheung, "Revisiting Privacy and Dignity: Online Shaming in the Global E-Village"", 3(2) Laws (2014) 301-326.
• Anne S.Y. Cheung, "Location Privacy: The Challenges of Mobile Service Devices" 30 Computer Law & Security Review (2014) 41-54.
• Anne S.Y. Cheung, “An Evaluation of Personal Data Protection in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (1995–2012),” 3 International Data Privacy Law (2013) 29-41.
• Anne S.Y. Cheung, “Exercising Freedom of Speech behind the Great Firewall: A Study of Judges’ and Lawyers’ Blogs in China,” 52 Harvard International Law Journal Online (2011) 250-288 (selected as the Feature Article of that issue).

Expertise