Rachel Teisch of Xerox Litigation Services has written a helpful summary of eDiscovery implications in Asian nations with the title Think Global, Litigate Local: Handling the Demands of eDiscovery in Asian Countries.

What was once seen as a US-EU problem has shifted eastwards as each jurisdiction in turn creates its own data privacy and data protection rules. The first conclusion which you will draw from Rachel Teisch’s article is that you need local advice; the second is that technology can help, not least by its ability to help identify personally identifiable information.