The computer sector plans to issue guidelines to repair shops on the handling of sensitive data to allay customers' privacy fears following the celebrity sex-pictures scandal.
Shops that adopt the guidelines would display a sign and sign privacy agreements with customers.
Chamber of Hong Kong Computer Industry president Jacky Cheung Yiu-shing, said the photo scandal - in which pictures taken from the computer of singer-actor Edison Chen Koon-hei were distributed on the internet - had thrown a scare into computer users.
'Some people even feel frightened to have their computers fixed if they are damaged,' Mr Cheung said.
A code of practice is being drawn up by another industry group, the Internet Professional Association, to advise repair workers and shop operators on the law and how to handle data in customers' computers.
Association chairman Samson Tam Wai-ho said details would be disclosed in one to two weeks.
'What I can tell you now is that repair workers will learn how to try to protect customers' privacy so that customers can have more confidence when having their computers fixed,' Mr Tam said.