Posts Tagged "Allan Chiang"


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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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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April 1, 2015 (SCMP) — Hong Kong Privacy Commissioner Allan Chiang has released new guidelines on the use of drones. Users are urged to avoid flying them too close to other people or their homes, and to post notices at locations and announcements on social media before using drones. The guidelines call for flashing lights to be fitted to drones to indicate if they are recording and that irrelevant recordings should be erased....

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Hong Kong’s privacy commissioner Allan Chiang has urged Google to extend the “right to be forgotten” to Hong Kong and elsewhere beyond the European Union. In a controversial ruling in May 2014, the European Court of Justice held that individuals in the EU had a right to ask search companies to remove links to information about them that is “inadequate, irrelevant, no longer relevant or excessive.”...

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