Personal data

Company filings and directors' addresses in Hong Kong

12 Jun 2013

Just before Easter the government announced that those sections of the Companies Ordinance 2012 that restrict public access to company director residential addresses and full identification card...

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Letters to the Editor, April 27, 2013

27 Apr 2013

I write to echo the views of Paul M. F. Cheng ("We badly need anti-monopoly legislation", April 24). He is right to lament that Hong Kong has never had a level playing field. Like the colonial...

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Public backed ordinance changes

23 Apr 2013

I refer to L. Chang's letter ("People should have opt-in choice over personal data", April 16). The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data and the government undertook a review of...

3:51AM

Opt-out rights a cause for celebration

19 Apr 2013

As the chairman of the Hong Kong Direct Marketing Association I feel obligated to respond to the letter by L. Chang and the report by Enoch Yiu. Both writers have misunderstood the newly amended...

2:48AM

Inundated with e-mails from firms

16 Apr 2013

Can a representative of our regulators please respond to my query - what were they thinking when they amended the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance in Hong Kong?

3:27AM

Back to sales basics as privacy rules take effect

15 Apr 2013

Insurance companies will cut back on direct marketing as they confront new privacy rules on the use and sale of customer information, according to the head of a major firm.

3:43AM

Opinion

Alex Lo

Chen Guangcheng misled by his new right-wing 'friends'

1:26AM

Tom Holland

The yuan hasn't overtaken the HK$ quite yet, Mr Chan

4:40AM

Stay vigilant about your personal data

Medical entrepreneurship can bring diversity and competition to the health care market. But if it is abused it can undermine public trust.

3:21AM

Privacy commission slams sale of personal data to insurance broker

The public watchdog condemned a medical centre for collecting personal data from more than 360,000 people and selling it to an insurance broker for direct marketing purposes.

11:31AM

Rethink on disclosure rules for company directors prudent

In a welcome change, officials have decided to shelve a contentious law restricting public access to personal details of company directors, amid growing concerns that such a provision may have...

3:29AM

PRIVACY

The last-minute dash for data by phone companies

Mobile phone service providers are making a last-minute rush to collect as much personal data as possible before a tighter law on direct-sales tactics comes into effect on April 1.

5:41AM

Firms should not use ID card numbers

Privacy Commissioner Allan Chiang has an unenviable job; he is a toothless tiger trapped between growing public awareness of privacy and security, and data users and aggregators who do not want to...

3:28AM

Respect and protect ID card numbers