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Appeal case
Complaint case
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By Provisions/DPPs/COPs/Guidelines
--By Provisions/DPPs/COPs/Guidelines--
DPP1 - Purpose and manner of collection of personal data
DPP2 - Accuracy and duration of retention of personal data
DPP3 - Use of personal data
DPP4 - Security of personal data
DPP5 - Information to be generally available
DPP6 - Access to personal data
Code of Practice on Consumer Credit Data
Code of Practice on Human Resource Management
Code of Practice on the Identity Card Number & Other Personal Identifiers
exemptions
Privacy Guidelines: Monitoring and Personal Data Privacy at Work
provisions on direct marketing
Proper Handling of Data Access Request and Charging of Data Access Request Fee by Data Users
N/A
Section 2 of the Ordinance – definition of “personal data”
Section 37 of the Ordinance
Section 38 of the Ordinance
Section 64 - disclosing personal data
Section 39 of the Ordinance
Section 26 – erasure of personal data
By Topic/Subject Matter
--By Topic/Subject Matter--
Biometrics data
Blind-ad
Complaint Handling Policy
Consumer credit data
Customer data
Data Access Request Fee
Debt collection
E-mail
Education
Election
Employment
Human resources
ID number/ ID copy
Installation of CCTV
Internet
Jurisdiction of Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance
Marketing
Media
Medical data
Monitoring
N/A
Personal Information Collection Statement (PICS)
Public Domain
Public register
Social services
Spamming
Transfer of data outside Hong Kong
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Case No.:2008A05
Important!
Whether an e-mail address is personal data.
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Areas of Concern:
DPP4
Case No.:2008A01
A property management company in its capacity as employer was held accountable for act of its employee under section 65(1) of the Ordinance in us
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Areas of Concern:
DPP3
Case No.:2007A06
Important!
Disclosure of email subscriber's personal data by email service provider to PRC law enforcement authority
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Areas of Concern:
DPP3
,
Exemptions
Case No.:2007A01
Complainant's duty to establish a valid complaint
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Areas of Concern:
DPP4
Case No.:2006C14
Employee complained her employer logged in her computer collecting cookies without notifying her
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Areas of Concern:
DPP1
,
DPP5
,
Monitoring
Case No.:2005A16
An e-mail is not personal data of a person simply because the name of that person is on the list of recipients
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Areas of Concern:
DPP3
,
DPP4
Case No.:2004C04
Service provider used customer's credit card data of terminated account to charge
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Areas of Concern:
DPP3
Case No.:2001C04
Display of Identity Card Number in a newspaper article
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Areas of Concern:
DPP3
Case No.:2000E17
Whether an organization could provide computer logs of staff members to a supervisory authority for investigation purpose.
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Areas of Concern:
DPP3
,
Monitoring
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