5 Privacy


May 20, 2016 (Reuters) — Hong Kong will begin a review of its data privacy rules over the next 18 months, with a view to potentially updating them in line with technological developments and changes in European regulation, the territory’s privacy regulator said. Hong Kong’s data privacy legislation was drawn-up nearly 20 years ago and based at the time on European Union law, but recent changes to the EU framework and...

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May 13, 2016 (South China Morning Post) Editorial — Hong Kong’s credibility as an international finance centre depends more than ever on transparency of markets , a free flow of information and a level playing field. With closer links between Hong Kong and mainland markets and the city’s role as an offshore yuan centre, these remain things that not only set us apart, but are critical to the perception of Hong Kong as a...

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December 1, 2015 (Hong Kong Free Press) — The High Court has made further rulings on the injunction in force to prevent more leaks of the discussions at a crucial University of Hong Kong (HKU) Council meeting. The court allowed the injunction to continue until the trial, and rejected the applications by Apple Daily and Undergrad editor-in-chief Marcus Lau Yee-ching to join the court proceedings as interested parties. Only the...

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November 3, 2015 (Hong Kong Free Press) — Hong Kong’s Administrative Appeals Board has ruled that hyperlinks to court judgments must be removed from an activist’s website, because they disclosed the identity of a person whose name was redacted in the judgments. Activist David Webb complained that the decision established a “right to be forgotten” without any proper legislation, which will make public data private. One...

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Aug. 4, 2015 (Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data) – Mr Stephen Kai-yi WONG takes office as the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, for a term of five years. Prior to joining the PCPD, Mr Wong was a practising barrister in private practice and the Secretary to the independent advisory body, the Law Reform Commission of Hong Kong (LRC). Before serving at the LRC, Mr Wong had been a legal counsel in the...

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July 13, 2015 (RTHK) — Shareholder activist David Webb has launched an appeal against the privacy watchdog’s order to remove from his website names that appeared in three court judgments from 2000, 2001 and 2002. The judiciary anonymised its judgments on these matrimonial cases ten years later – so those involved couldn’t be identified. But they still could be identified on Webb’s site, which listed their...

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