Government to review all its computer systems
The United Nations will be asked to step into the privacy blunder in which about 20,000 police complaint files have been disclosed on the internet.
Local human rights activists yesterday vowed to raise the issue when they attend a UN hearing in New York under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights next week.
The move comes as the security chief said the government would review all its computer systems to avoid a similar leak. But he dismissed calls to change the identity card numbers of those affected.
The Independent Police Complaints Council conceded that public confidence had been dealt a blow after its data base of some 20,000 complainants and the officers concerned was found posted on the internet last week.
Speaking at a public forum, legislator Emily Lau Wai-hing of The Frontier said she believed the United Nations would raise concerns over the blunder.
'The UN Human Rights Committee has long been calling on the government to set up a truly independent body to investigate complaints against police,' she said, referring to the fact that the council only monitors how police investigate complaints against officers at present.
