Here’s the latest news from the technology industry, which is coming under increasing global scrutiny. China Passes Far-Reaching Regulations To Protect User Privacy China will soon boast one of the world’s strictest data privacy laws after the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) passed new regulations set to take effect Nov. 1, according to state media Xinhua and other news outlets on Friday (Aug. 20). The new law says there must be a logical objective to the handling of people’s personal information and must be restricted to the “minimum scope necessary to achieve the goals of handling” data,…