Information Privacy

18 Sep 2008

The privacy watchdog cautioned yesterday that collection of employees' data must be done lawfully and fairly, and said it did not become lawful just because an employment contract made provision...

10:30AM

Data leak points to Immigration Department

7 Jul 2008

Files with private information believed to be from the Immigration Department were found on a popular file-sharing programme yesterday, one month after the director's pledge to the personal data...

8:06PM

Protection of personal data must be stepped up

26 Apr 2008

The admission by the Department of Health that it has lost personal patient details raises serious concerns about protection of confidential information and the level of compliance with data...

2:26AM

Why flawed privacy ordinance must be given more teeth

22 Mar 2008

I am so glad that Eugene R. Raitt and the Hong Kong Direct Marketing Association consider the existing Personal Data Privacy Ordinance 'fine the way it is written' ('Privacy ordinance already...

11:07PM

Letters

15 Mar 2008

Why tougher privacy law is essential for HK

10:25PM

Privacy ordinance already gives people enough protection

12 Mar 2008

I refer to two articles relating to data privacy ('Make data leak crime, privacy chief urges' and 'Watchdog urges data user register', February 20 and 28, respectively).

10:05PM

Opinion

The last straw for Terry Wong?

2:53PM

Jake Van Der Kamp

iBonds are little help in easing inflation and a bad bet financially

3:55AM

Watchdog urges data user register

'People have right to know what's on files'

The privacy commissioner has proposed requiring data users to register with his office and explain why they are collecting information on...

8:48PM

Leak of Recruit.net data prompts probe

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data has launched an investigation into the recruitment website Recruit.net, which Chinese media reported leaked the personal details of 40,000...

10:28AM

Privacy chief launches inquiry into data gaffe

Privacy Commissioner Roderick Woo Bun yesterday launched an urgent investigation into the disclosure of sensitive business data on the website of the Intellectual Property Department.

12:30AM

Privacy chief needs tools to plug data loopholes

The privacy of personal and confidential data stored on the internet is a sensitive issue that directly affects us all. The law places a clear duty of care on those responsible for putting it...

12:11AM

An invasion of privacy

The controversial covert surveillance bill was finally passed at the weekend, after years of the administration invading people's privacy and broaching the Basic Law. During the four-day debate...

1:29AM

Time to weigh heavier penalties for data lapses

Any unauthorised disclosure of personal information is a breach of privacy law. News of a leakage onto the internet of sensitive data about 20,000 people held by the official police complaints...

1:57PM